Chapter 15

Edward Jenner developed smallpox vaccinations by using fluid from cowpox sores.

• True

• False

Francis Bacon developed inductive reasoning.

• True

• False

Voltaire treated the nobility/monarchy with great respect.

• True

• False

Philosophers of the Enlightenment relied on the Bible as the solution for life’s problems.

• True

• False

The Lutheran Church threatened to excommunicate Galileo when he published his findings that confirmed the geocentric theory.

• True

• False

What is the reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion called?

• Inductive reasoning
• deductive reasoning

• rationalism

Which scientist determined that white light is composed of many different colors?

• Copernicus

• Priestley

• Newton

• Kepler

What term describes an inoculation against a disease?

• antibiotics

• vaccination

• medicine

• remedy

What were eighteenth century social critics known as?

• philosophes

• philosophers

• Enlightenment thinkers

What is the eighteenth century American revival called?

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Great Awakening

• Age of Reason

• Reformation