Science Quiz

Who discovered four moons of Jupiter and that they orbited around Jupiter?

• Galileo

• Newton

• Kepler

• Bacon

Who is the scientist who explained planets revolve around the sun and in ellipses?

• Newton

• Kepler

• heliocentric

• Galileo

Galen’s ancient works were incorrect in many aspects of...

• religion

• archaeology

• architecture

• human anatomy

Who is the scientist who discovered the law of gravity?

• Newton

• Kepler

• Galileo

• recant

What is the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?

• heliocentric

• gravity

• Kepler

• hypothesis

What new way of thinking about the physical world led to modern science?

• hypothesis

• geocentric

• scientific revolution

• recant

Which one of these means to give up one’s views?

• recant

• Kepler

• Newton

• Bacon

What is the belief that the sun is at the center of the universe?

• Bacon

• gravity

• heliocentric

• geocentric

Until the Scientific Revolution, the traditional authorities were...

• Jews

• explorers

• the Catholic Church & classical scholars

• monarchies

Who was one of the fathers of modern philosophy who deducted one unshakable truth, “I think, therefore I am?”

• Rene Descartes

• Robert Boyle

• Francis Bacon

• William Harvey