21.1 The Scientific Revolution

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T/F: The SUN orbits around the EARTH.

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FALSE

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How did Medieval "natural philosophers" gain their scientific knowledge?

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They relied on ancient writers, especially Aristotle.

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Which of the following made it possible for scientists to practice direct observation?
Options: the printing press, the telescope & microscope, natural philosophers, Greek thinkers

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the telescope & microscope

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What academic discipline was seen as the "key to understanding the nature of things in the universe"?

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Mathematics

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Which of these diagrams shows the Ptolemaic system?

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The root "helio-" in heliocentric means...

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sun, sun-centered

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Copernicus argued that the planets revolved around the...

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Sun.

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_____ was a mathematician who showed that the orbits of the planets were elliptical. (hint: His name has six letters.)

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Kepler

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The Catholic Church attacked Galileo because he defended they system that said the _______ revolved around the ______.

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Earth... Sun

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Newton's universal law of gravitation was important because...

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it could explain all the motion in the universe.