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WorksheetsScientific Revolution
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 24mins
People during the Scientific Revolution started to make scientific laws based upon with two principles?
Traditional ideas
Experimentation and exploration
Empiricism and rationalism
Heliocentric Theory means?
The sun is the middle of the universe
The Earth is in the middle of the universe
The Moon is in the middle of the universe
Jupiter is in the middle of the universe
Galileo improved what invention that was used to look further into space?
Quadrant
Telescope
Sail
What is an astronomer?
Someone who studies landscapes
Someone who studies books
Someone who studies the stars and planets
Someone who studies history
What does this image represent?
The Geocentric Theory
The Heliocentric Theory
Aztec Calendar
What does this image represent?
The Heliocentric theory
The Geocentric theory
The Tychonian theory
Who was the English scientist who discovered the laws of gravitation?
Galileo
Newton
Kepler
Copernicus
Who was the Italian physicist and astronomer who proved that objects of different weights, if dropped from the same height, fell at the same rate of speec. He was also responsible discovering the law of the pendulum.
Galileo
Vesalius
Hooke
Boyle
What theory states that human reason is the main source of knowledge?
Rationalism
Empiricism
As interest in science increased what did the bourgeoisie, monarchs, and nobles establish?
Scientific Academies
Universities
Secondary Schools
Science Academies within the Catholic Church
The Scientific Revolution led to breakthroughs in
astronomy
physics and chemistry
geography
botany and zoology
all of the above
In Europe during the 17th century, scientific academies were open to men and women
True
False
The way individuals think and reason would be classified as their
ideology
religion
political
economic
Believing in empiricism and rationalism is an example of a person's
ideology
religion
political
economic
