Joseph Banks sailed on the first European expedition to cross the Pacific Ocean on the ship called...
What is the Endeavor
100
What 2 camps did thinkers divide into during the 17th century in Western Europe?
What is the ancients and moderns
100
This person was a pioneering figure in the area of modern botany
What is Carl Linnaeus
100
For medieval Europeans the main authority in anatomy was the ancient Greek physician named...
What is Galen
100
In the 17th and 18th centuries as members of the English gentry, like the Banks family, accumulated landholdings, new laws allowed them to enclose common lands as private party in what is called the...
What is the enclosure movement.
200
Banks was a pioneer of this study of linguistic and cultural relationships between peoples.
What is ethnography
200
This group emphasized the authority of Aristotle and other classic authors
What is ancients
200
Carl Linnaeus traveled where to gather plant specimens?
What is Sweden
200
In what year did a Belgian physician publish a new scheme of human anatomy?
What is 1543
200
Banks developed a pioneering experimental facility where?
What is at Kew Gardens
300
What was central to the Endeavor's mission?
What is scientific inquiry
300
This 17th century thinker used the deductive approach
What is Rene Descartes
300
In 1735 Linnaeus published his classification of living things know as the
What is Systema Naturae
300
What says that the lungs are like the eight petals of the lotus flower, with three petals hanging in front, three in back, and two petals forming like two ears?
What is the Chinese Book of Medicine.
300
Who was one of the main proponents of the inductive approach to science?
What is Sir Francis Bacon
400
Once Banks became president of the Royal Society, what field did he focus on?
What is economic botany
400
This approach to science involved working from modest, carefully controlled observations toward larger truths.
What is the inductive approach
400
Linnaeus's system classified species using these 4 hierarchal categories...
What is genus/order/class/kingdom
400
Why were many Christians upset with the dissection of human cadavers?
What is they saw the violation of dead bodies as sacrilegious.
400
This scientist used calculus to analyze observations of planetary motion...
What is Isaac Newton
500
Banks returned to England after a 3 year journey in what year?
What is 1771
500
This was a breakthrough in human understanding of the natural world
What is Newton's universal law of gravitation
500
The Dutch pioneered a technique of reclaiming low lying land by using what to pump water from marshes?
What is windmills
500
The Tabulae Anatomicae is what
What is a Dutch book of anatomy
500
What German philosopher wrote that "there is nothing higher than reason"?