Scientific Revolution Review

A series of events that led to the birth of modern science from 1540-1700

• The Reformation

• The Renaissance

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Enlightment

The early Greek thinker that influenced the Scientific Revolution the most.

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Plato

The first person to use a telescope to study the sky.

• Galileo

• Newton

• Copernicus

• Kepler

Which of the following were some of Galileo's discoveries? (Select all that apply)

• Venus phases

• moons of Jupiter

• Sunspots

• craters on the moon

The discovery that the sun was the center of the universe was made by:

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Albert Einstein

Proved the laws of motion and published Principia Mathematica.

• Copernicus

• Newton

• Kepler

• Franklin

Who developed the scientific method?

• Bacon & Descartes

• Newton

• Einstein

• Galileo

The heliocentric method is a model of the solar system where:

• The Earth is at the center

• The Sun is at the center

• The Moon is at the center

• The stars are at the center

The geocentric method is a model that places what at the center of the universe?

• The Earth

• The Sun

• The Moon

• Mars

Discovered that the planets move in elliptical, oval, orbits around the sun

• Copernicus

• Newton

• Franklin

• Kepler