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WorksheetsThe Scientific Revolution
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
All of the following are reasons why the Scientific Revolution occurred in Europe EXCEPT
Goods brought from explored lands
Renaissance scholarship
The Catholic Churches support of new medicines and theories
The closer role of craftsmen and scholars
Which activity was central to the process of learning that was developed during the Scientific Revolution?
constructing laboratories
explaining the past
observing the physical universe
analyzing government documents
Which of the following is a similarity between the work of scientists and philosophers associated with the Scientific Revolution and those associated with the Enlightenment?
Focus on examinations of the natural laws that govern the universe
Belief that only absolute monarchies could improve economic conditions
Heavy reliance on medieval thinkers
Extensive support from the Roman Catholic Church
Who argued that humans are not the masters of nature?
Maria Merian
Mary Wollstonecraft
Isaac Newton
Margaret Cavendish
Who created the Scientific Method?
Andreas Vesalius
Francis Bacon
Johannes Kepler
Galen
Before the 1500's most scholars believed in the ______ Theory and that the earth was an ______ object located at the center of the universe.
Geoconcentric, unattached
Geocentric, immovable
Heliocentric, immovable
Heliocentric, inanimate
Who accurately described the individual organs and general structure of the human body?
Andreas Vesalius
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Aristotle
What was a direct result of the Scientific Revolution in Europe?
The rise of the manorial system
The application of reason to political thinking
A gradual decline in the growth of cities
An acceptance of the divine right theory
Which of the following was developed by Isaac Newton?
The Heliocentric Theory
The Scientific Method
The Theory of Scientific Rationalism
The Theory of Universal Gravitation
Who was the Italian astronomer who developed the telescope, which confirmed Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory?
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
Andreas Vesalius
Who argued that orbits of the planets were elliptical
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Copernicus
Ptolemy
