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Review Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

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  • Q1
    Capitalism, championed by Adam Smith, requires the ownership of _______ ________ which Enlightenment thinkers believed was a natural right to be protected by government.
    private property
    30s
  • Q2
    Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations and believed in ____ markets and the invisible hand to guide prices based on ______ and _____.
    free, supply, demand
    30s
  • Q3
    Universal rules that are discoverable with logic and reason
    natural law
    30s
  • Q4
    English scientist that developed the theory of gravity, laws of motion, and the foundations of calculus
    Isaac Newton
    30s
  • Q5
    The Scientific Revolution undermined the literal interpretation of the
    Bible
    30s
  • Q6
    Authorities on science before the scientific revolution were
    ancient Greek/Roman scholars and the Catholic Church
    30s
  • Q7
    Church court set up during the Middle Ages that used torture and execution to end heresy
    Inquisition
    30s
  • Q8
    An English scientist that helped establish the scientific method and stressed experimentation and systematic observation
    Francis Bacon
    30s
  • Q9
    A step-by-step process of discovery developed to systematically observe, collect, analyze and report results
    Scientific Method
    30s
  • Q10
    The study of the body and how it functions
    anatomy
    30s
  • Q11
    Theory proposed by Ancient Greek, Ptolemy, that Earth is the center of the solar system or the universe.
    Geocentric Theory
    30s
  • Q12
    Organization created with the support of the kings of Europe in an effort to promote the cooperation and sharing of scientific ideas
    ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
    30s
  • Q13
    Astronomer who supported the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the universe and was condemned by the Church for heresy
    Galileo
    30s
  • Q14
    Major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700, in which modern science focused on experimentation, observation, and discovery, based on logic and reason to gain knowledge about the natural world
    Scientific Revolution
    30s
  • Q15
    A French scientist that helped establish the scientific method and emphasized human reasoning (systematic observation and deductive reasoning) to reach understanding
    Rene Descartes
    30s

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