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WorksheetsScientific Revolution
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 3hrs 15mins
Term that means earth-centered universe
heliocentric
geocentric
eccentric
egocentric
Term that means sun-centered universe
heliocentric
geocentric
eccentric
egocentric
The scientific method was all of the following EXCEPT
a systematic procedure or series of steps
based on collecting and analyzing evidence
reliant on the ideas of ancient authorities
crucial to the evolution of science
According to Aristotle and the Ptolemaic system,
the moons is the center of the universe, and the Earth revolves around it.
the Earth revolves around the moon, and the moon revolves around the sun
the Sun, Earth, and Moon all revolve around Saturn, the sun god
the earth is fixed at the center of the universe and the sun and planets revolve around it in circular orbits
______ was one of the first to argue that the SUN, NOT the Earth, was the center of the universe.
Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Martin Luther
Why did Nicolaus Copernicus wait until late in his life to publish his theory of a heliocentric universe?
He feared criticism from politicians
He risked punishment by church officials
He had little money to hire a printer of his work
He needed to be sure of his mathematical calculations
Galileo's teaching of the heliocentric model got him in trouble with
Ptolemy
Maria Theresa
the Catholic Church
Copernicus
He carefully observed and recorded the movements of the planets producing mountains of accurate data for future scientists to make sense of.
Ptolemy
Tycho Brahe
Copernicus
Francis Bacon
He studied the data collected by Tycho Brahe and used mathematics to show that the planets revolved around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circles
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Martin Luther
Rene Descartes
Galileo's observations of space using a telescope seemed to indicate that
Copernicus and Kepler were wrong on their beliefs about the moon goddess
the Catholic Church's beliefs about the heavens were correct
Plato was correct about the way the planets were arranged
the moon and stars were composed of material substances just like Earth, and were not pure orbs of light
He developed the laws of planetary motion including the universal law of gravitation.
Galileo
Ptolemy
Isaac Newton
Rene Descartes
The way of thinking about the universe as a giant clock and God the clockmaker who set everything in motion. Like a clock, the parts of the universe all worked together perfectly in ways that could be expressed mathematically
deism
rationalism
socialism
cubism
He discovered that Jupiter has moons and the sun as dark spots
Johannes Kepler
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
Galileo Galilei
