WorksheetsChapter 13 section 5: The Scientific Revolution
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
When did the Scientific Revolution take place?
1400s to 1500s
1500s to 1600s
1600s to 1700s
1700s to 1800s
Prior to the Scientific Revolution, what was the basis for many of the prevailing views of science?
Mathematics
Experimentation
Observation
Religious Laws
Who was responsible for devising the Heliocentric Theory of the universe?
Isaac Newton
Nicolas Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Ptolemy
True or False: Galileo supported the Heliocentric Theory when brought in front of the Inquisition.
True
False
What crime was Galileo accused of committing that brought him in front of the Inquisition?
Heresy
Witchcraft
Adultry
Theft
The scientific method, or science through experimentation, is credited to which two scientists?
Brahe and Kepler
Bacon and Descartes
Galileo and Ptolemy
Boyle and Pare
What is the best definition of a hypothesis?
Educated guess
Conclusion to be tested
Early theory
Result of experimentation
What was the field of chemistry called in the early middle ages?
Chemistry
Alchemy
Witchcraft
It didn't exist
Who is the "Father of modern chemistry?"
Robert Boyle
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
What force binds the universe together?
Mathematics
Kinetic Energy
Gravity
Magnetism
Kepler said Copernicus was wrong about his theory on the orbits of the planets, how so?
elliptical, not circular
circular, not elliptical
Spherical, not circular
Spherical, not elliptical
Galileo used his telescope to observe the moons of what planet?
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Venus
Who was the Emporer of the Holy Roman Empire at the height of the Spanish Inquisition?
Charles V
Leo X
Ferdinand II
Semper Fidelis
Which group was the main target of the Spanish Inquisition?
Witches
Outcasts
Protestants
Jews
What is the famous quote of Rene Descartes?
"Knowledge is power"
"I think therefore I am"
"Reason above all else"
"E pluribus unum"
which of these scientists wanted to show that mathematics linked the sciences?
Isaac Newton
Robert Boyle
Johannes Kepler
Plato
Who conducted both legal and illegal autopsies to create the book "On the Structures of the Human Body?"
Andreas Vesalius
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
William Harvey
Ambroise Pare
Who invented the microscope?
Andreas Vesalius
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
William Harvey
Ambroise Pare
Who devised new surgical techniques, created salves to prevent infection, and improved prosthetic limbs?
Andreas Vesalius
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
William Harvey
Ambroise Pare
What form of mathematics was created by Isaac Newton?
Algebra
Geometry
Trigonometry
Calculus
