The Start of the Revolution
Scientists pt.1
Scientists pt.2
Scientific Method
Miscellaneous
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What are the series of events that led to the birth of modern science?
The Scientific Revolution
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Why DIDN'T Copernicus want to publish his book?
He was afraid of religious persecution.
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What did Galileo use to study astronomy?
a telescope
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Which two people created the Scientific Method?
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes
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Why did the discovery of North America stun Europeans?
North America did not appear on ancient Greek maps.
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What did ancient Greek thinkers emphasize?
the use of observation and logic
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Copernicus's ideas were?
Revolutionary because he theorized that the planets orbited the sun.
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Newton's laws of motion describe what?
how objects move in space.
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What is a theory?
an explanation based on facts
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Why was Galileo put on trial?
For publishing his ideas about the planets orbiting the sun
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What is Alchemy?
A forerunner of chemistry who experimented with natural substances
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Which astronomer is known for proving that the planets moved in elliptical orbits?
Johannes Kepler
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Who was the first person to study the sky with a telescope?
Galileo Galilei
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Unlike most European scholars, Rene Descartes argued that knowledge begins with what?
doubt
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What are rationalists and provide an example of a rationalist.
Rationalists look at the world in a reasonable and logical way and some examples are Aristotle and Ptolemy
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How did science influence ideas of government?
Reason and logic from science could help improve society
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Who was considered the "Father of experimental science" and why was he considered this?
Galileo Galilei because he was the first person to routinely use experiments to test theories.
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How did Sir Isaac Newton's work change the way people thought about the light.
He showed that light is made up of all of the colors of the rainbow.
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In the scientific method, how is a hypothesis different than a theory?
A hypothesis has not been tested.
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How did religious scholars like Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas helped preserve Greek ideas?
Trying to unite Greek ideas with religious beliefs
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Why did the church and science come into conflict?
Science contradicted Church teachings which weakened the Church's power.
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Why are Newton's laws important to modern science?
The laws explain how the physical world works.
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Whose book was thought to have marked the beginning of the Scientific Revolution?
Nicolaus Copernicus
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What is the scientific method?
the pursuit of knowledge using observation and experimentation
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What effect did the Scientific Revolution have on people's ideas about society?
People thought that science could improve their lives and society
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