Chapter 8 Lesson 1 Quiz
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The theory that the center of the universe is Earth and all other celestial bodies revolve around it.
universal law of gravitation
heliocentric
geocentric
rationalism
120s - Q2
An English philosopher who was critical of the idea that humans could be masters of nature through scientific knowledge.
Isaac Newton
Antoine Lavoisier
Margaret Cavendish
Maria Winkelmann
120s - Q3
A 2nd century mathematician famous for the geocentric theory of the universe.
Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Galen
120s - Q4
A mathematician who explained that planetary motion around the sun is elliptical, not circular.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
120s - Q5
A 17th century mathematician who discovered the universal law of gravitation.
Isaac Newton
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
120s - Q6
A scientist who used his observations about liquids and pressure to develop the syringe and hydraulic press.
Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
Antione Lavoisier
120s - Q7
A 2nd century physician who dissected animals to make conclusions about human anatomy and whose ideas prevailed until the Late Middle Ages.
Galen
Ptolemy
Andreas Vesalius
Galilei
120s - Q8
An 18th century scientist considered the founder of modern chemistry because of his invention of a system of naming chemical elements.
Antoine Lavoisier
Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
120s - Q9
A German astronomer who married and assisted Germany's foremost astronomer and discovered a comet.
Galileo Galilei
William Harvey
Nicolaus Copernicus
Maria Winkelmann
120s - Q10
A 16th century mathematician who developed the heliocentric theory of the universe.
Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
120s - Q11
A 16th/17th century mathematician who used a telescope to make advanced observations about the world and came under fire from the Catholic Church for subscribing to Copernican ideas about the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
120s - Q12
A 16th century scientist who proved that the heart, not the liver, is the starting point for blood circulation and that blood completes a circuit throughout the body.
Isaac Newton
Galen
Andreas Vesalius
William Harvey
120s - Q13
The first scientist to perform controlled chemistry experimentation, and who developed a law describing how the volume of a gas changes with pressure.
Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
Antoine Lavoisier
Isaac Newton
120s - Q14
Every object in the universe is attracted to every other body in the universe by a force called gravity.
Universal law of gravitation
Geocentric theory
Heliocentric theory
Pascal's Law
120s - Q15
The belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge.
Philosophism
Scientific method
Inductive reasoning
Rationalism
120s