Review Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
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- Q1Capitalism, championed by Adam Smith, requires the ownership of _______ ________ which Enlightenment thinkers believed was a natural right to be protected by government.private property30s
- Q2Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations and believed in ____ markets and the invisible hand to guide prices based on ______ and _____.free, supply, demand30s
- Q3Universal rules that are discoverable with logic and reasonnatural law30s
- Q4English scientist that developed the theory of gravity, laws of motion, and the foundations of calculusIsaac Newton30s
- Q5The Scientific Revolution undermined the literal interpretation of theBible30s
- Q6Authorities on science before the scientific revolution wereancient Greek/Roman scholars and the Catholic Church30s
- Q7Church court set up during the Middle Ages that used torture and execution to end heresyInquisition30s
- Q8An English scientist that helped establish the scientific method and stressed experimentation and systematic observationFrancis Bacon30s
- Q9A step-by-step process of discovery developed to systematically observe, collect, analyze and report resultsScientific Method30s
- Q10The study of the body and how it functionsanatomy30s
- Q11Theory proposed by Ancient Greek, Ptolemy, that Earth is the center of the solar system or the universe.Geocentric Theory30s
- Q12Organization created with the support of the kings of Europe in an effort to promote the cooperation and sharing of scientific ideasROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE30s
- Q13Astronomer who supported the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the universe and was condemned by the Church for heresyGalileo30s
- Q14Major 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 worldScientific Revolution30s
- Q15A French scientist that helped establish the scientific method and emphasized human reasoning (systematic observation and deductive reasoning) to reach understandingRene Descartes30s