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Lesson 3 The Scientific Revoulution
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What did people develop during the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration?
Humans always shown an interest in _____________________________
What did people begin doing thousands of years ago?
What is science?
Why do scientists study the physical world?
Activities such as watching plants and animals grow represented the beginnings of ________________
What activities represented the beginnings of science?
Why did the people of ancient civilizations develop science?
What did the people of ancient civilizations do to solve problems?
What did people of ancient civilizations use mathematics for?
How did the people of ancient civilizations keep records?
People of ancient civilizations who studied the movement of the stars developed ________________
Science, mathematics and astronomy helped people ______________________________________
The ancient Greeks developed a large amount of ____________________________
Who developed a large amount of scientific information?
Ancient Greeks believed that reason was a way to ________________________
What did ancient Greeks' studies help them develop?
The ancient Greeks and Romans made _________________________
The Greek philosopher Aristotle ________________________________
Who gathered facts about plants and animals?
Who was Aristotle?
Aristotle classified living things by arranging them into ________________________________________
Classical thinkers didn't conduct ____________________________
What does it mean when classical thinkers didn't conduct scientific experiments?
Classical thinkers basing their conclusions on "common sense" led to ________________________
Who is Ptolemy?
Ptolemy stated __________________
What was accepted in Europe for more than 1400 years?
During the Middle Ages, most Europeans were interested in __________________________
Europeans' ideas about science were based mostly on _________________
Europeans didn't think it was necessary to research the facts and ________________________
Many of the classical writings were __________________
As people wrote out copies of the old texts, they sometimes made errors ___________________________
Who in the Islamic empire preserved Greek and Roman science?
What did Arabs and Jews copy many Greek and ROman works into?
Arabs and Jews came into contact with the Indian system of numbers that is now called _________________
The Indian system of numbers is now called _________________
Arab and Jewish scientists made their own advances in _________________________________
What did scientists in the Islamic world didn't do despite making achievements in mathematics, astronomy and medicine?
Who began o have more contact with Islamic empires during the 1100s?
What happened as a result of European thinkers began to have more contact with Islamic people?
Europeans began to read copies of ____________________
What happened after the Indian-Arabic system of numbers reached Europe?
What did Thomas Aquinas and other Christian thinkers show?
Who showed that Christianity and reason could work together?
Europeans began building ________________________
What did teachers and students do in the new universities built by Europeans?
In Europe, what did voyages of exploration add to at the beginning of the 1400s?
What did Europeans begin to create?
What helped explorers reach different parts of the world?
What happened as more of the world was explored?
What did scientists gather and organize?
What gradually expanded in Europe?
What happened as scientific knowledge gradually expanded in Europe?
What did Europeans began to think differently about in the 1500s?
What did Europeans realize scientists had to use to make advances?
Using mathematics and experiments to make advances led to the ________________________
The Scientific Revolution changed how Europeans ______________________________
Universities offered some legal protection to scholars that ______________________________
In the 1700s, Scientific inquiry and scientific study became so associated with universities that they spread to _________________________
What had become so associated with universities?
The Scientific Revolution first affected _________________
What is astronomy?
New discoveries in astronomy began to change _____________________
Europeans challenged the traditional idea that _______________________________________
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
In 1491, Copernicus began his career at a university in ________________
Who reached the Americas in 1492?
What did Copernicus do similarly to Columbus?
Copernicus wrote a book called ____________________________
Who wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres?
Copernicus disagreed with ___________________________________________
Copernicus developed _________________
What did Copernicus believe?
What followed a circular path around the sun?
Who did Copernicus's theory disagree with?
What happened as a result of Copernicus's theory disagreeing with church teachings?
What didn't Copernicus receive until he was dying?
Who made more advances in astronomy?
Who is Johannes Kepler?
Johannes Kepler used mathematics to support ___________________________
What did Johannes Kepler use to support Copernicus's theory?
Kepler added the idea planets move in _______________ instead of the circular paths in Copernicus's theory
Kepler stated that planets do not always travel at the same ___________
Planets move faster as they ______________
Planets move slower as they _________________
Kepler's theory provided a simpler explanation for _____________________
Kepler's theory marked the beginning of ________________
Who was Galil Galilei?
Who made the next great discovery in the Scientific Revolution after the heliocentric theory?
What did Galileo believe was the correct way to achieve new scientific knowledge?
What happened as a result of Galileo supporting the heliocentric theory of the universe?
Some of Galileo's studies that challenged long-held ideas were less ________________________
Aristotle had thought that heavy objects fall to the ground faster than ________________
Galileo's experiments disproved that ____________
Objects fall at the same speed no matter __________________
What did Galileo believe could help people better explore the natural world?
What did Galileo do when he heard about an early telescope?
With the telescope, Galileo found evidence that supported _______________
What did Galileo use to support the heliocentric theory?
Galileo improved the making of __________________
The idea of an overhead clock swinging back and forth at the same time made Galileo make a ___________________
What made the clock more accurate?
Galileo developed new _________________
What did Galileo invent in 1593?
What was the result of inventing the water thermometer?
Who built the first barometer?
What is a barometer?
During the 1600s and 1700s, scientists built on the advances of _________________________
Scientists druing the 1600s and 1700s made advances in __________________
The scientific knowledge during the 1600s and 1700s gradually influenced ________________________
Who was Isaac Newton?
An apple falling onto the gro und of Newton's garden led him to _______________
In 1687, Newton published a book called _____________
Who made the book called Principia?
What was one of the most important books in the history of modern science?
What was Principia about?
What was the most important law?
What does the law of gravitation state?
Gravity holds the solar system together by __________________
Newton's ideas greatly influenced the ___________________
What experienced many changes during the 1500s and 1600s?
Since ancient times, the teachings of the Greek physician Galen had influenced ____________________
Galen wanted to study the human body he wasn't allowed to ______________
What did Galen do instead of interacting with dead human bodies?
Who advanced medical research in the 1500s?
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
Andreas began ___________________________
What did Andreas do in 1543?
What does On the Structure of the Human Body describe?
Andreas' book challenged many of ______________
In the early 1600s, who began using a microscope?
Who is Robert Hooke?
Who soon discovered cells?
What are the smallest units of living matter?
How did Antonie van Leeuwenhoek improve the microscope?
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
He used the improved micrscopes to discover _______________
European thinkers believed science _______________________________
By using the reason that science reveled the natural laws of the universe, people could ________________________________________
What became a major center of scientific thought?
Who is Rene Descartes?
Who wrote the Discourse on Method?
What is Discourse on Method about?
What did Descartes do to find the truth?
What is one fact that seemed to be beyond doubt summarized?
What is the source of scientific truth according to Descartes' work?
What is always true in mathematics according to Descartes?
What was Descartes' reasoning for mathematics?
Mathematics uses _________________
Who is viewed as the founder of modern rationalism?
Who studied science during the 1600s?
Who is Blaise Pascal?
What did Blaise Pascal invent at the age of 19?
What did Pascal believe could solve many practical problems?
What did Pascal believe were the solutions to moral problems and spiritual truth?
Who influenced scientific thought in the 1600s?
Who was Francis Bacon?
What did Francis Bacon believe?
How do you find the truth according to Bacon?
What was natural human behavior according to Bacon?
Who developed the Scientific Method?
What is the scientific method?
What is still used today?
What is the first step of the scientific method?
What is the second step of the scientific method?
What do scientists do to test the hypothesis?
What shows that the hypothesis is true?
Repeated experiments showing that the hypothesis is true is considered as ________________________