The Scientific Revolution
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- Q1
The belief that the sun is the center of the universe.
Eurocentric
Afrocentric
Heliocentric
Geocentric
30s - Q2
The belief that the earth was the center of the universe
Heliocentric
Geocentric
Afrocentric
Eurocentric
30s - Q3
Who was the scientist that discovered the law of gravity?
Harvey
Copernicus
Boyle
Newton
120s - Q4
A new way of thinking about the physical world that led to modern science.
Industrialization
Political Revolution
Scientific Revolution
Information Age
120s - Q5
What does it mean to give up one's views?
recant
redeem
release
review
120s - Q6
A possible explanation
hypothesis
hibernate
hydraulic
experimentation
120s - Q7
The scientist who explained that the planets revolve around the sun and in ellipses.
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
Newton
120s - Q8
He discovered four moons of Jupiter and that they orbited around Jupiter.
Kepler
Galileo
Copernicus
Harvey
120s - Q9
What is the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?
Friction
Inertia
Gravity
120s - Q10
Who was the "father" of modern philosophy who deducted one unshakable truth, "I think therefore, I am."
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
Rene Descartes
William Harvey
120s - Q11
Why didn't Johannes Kepler have to worry about being tried for heresy when he agreed with Copernicus' views of the universe?
Kepler was a Kung fu warrior
Kepler was close friend with the Pope
Kepler was protestant
Kepler kept his views a secret
120s - Q12
Copernicus proposed which of the following?
The Earth travels around the sun
The Sun travels around the Earth
Gravity keeps the planet in orbit around the sun
The Earth is the center of the universe
120s - Q13
The steps to find scientific truth through observation and experiments is called
deductive reasoning
scientific method
logic
observation
120s - Q14
Andreas Vesalius achieved his breakthrough discoveries by
trying to transform metal into gold
illegally directing human bodies
explaining the heliocentric views of the universe
experimenting with the properties of air
120s - Q15
Who established chemistry as a pure science?
Frances Bacon
Robert Boyle
Isaac Newton
William Harvey
120s