This is the city that Galileo was born in with a slanty building…
Answer: Pisa
100
What is the name of the school which both Galileo and Harvey worked or attended at the same time?
University of Padua
100
What high legal position did Bacon attain which gave him great influence?
Answer: Lord Chancellor
100
Descartes felt he need to start over with previous scientific ideas. In order to truly start over, what must he do to all previous and current scientific theories an ideas?
Answer: Doubt everything – test it yourself
100
What famous “paper” is Robert Boyle responsible for inventing?
Answer: litmus paper
200
Fill in the blank: “The Bible teaches how to go to __________, not how the _________ go.”
Heaven and Heavens
200
Fill in the blank: Like Aristotle, Harvey believed every organ and animals had a form and_____________ in life to do some sort of work.
Function or purpose
200
What two royal figures did Bacon serve with legal services?
Queen Elizabeth I and King James I
200
How was Descartes like Galileo when it came to the mixing of science and religion?
Answer: He believed religion should not come in the study of the natural world or they should be separate.
200
What tool most help Boyle make his discoveries of chemical elements; essentially explaining the difference between a physical change like melting gold, to a chemical change like burning wood?
Microscope
300
What is the name of the famed Galileo book which was presented as a conversation between three people discussing some Copernican ideas?
Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
300
Fill in the blank: Aristotle believe the heart was at the center of life. Harvey expounded on this idea by studying _____________ and how it interacted with other organs like the lungs.
Blood
300
Bacon believed that “Knowledge is power,” which prompted him to encourage royalty to use public money to do what?
Build laboratories and spaces for scientists to work
300
Descartes felt that only people had souls and that the mind (soul) and body never truly interacted. What is the term that he used to describe the type of “machine’ animals were?
Answer: Automata
300
Boyle’s idea of a “corpuscle,” was a predeceasing word what “small” unit of life?
Cells
400
Why did some people believe some of Galileo’s ideas were “tricks played by his new ‘tube,’” even when he showed them personally?
Some people believed what couldn’t be seen by the naked eye wasn’t there.
400
Harvey discovered that blood moves in constant direction in the body. What is the scientific idea term?
Circulation
400
According to Bacon, by understanding nature we will be able to do what to it?
Answer: Control it
400
Descartes was very influential in algebra, what three letters did he coin to show known variables in mathematics?
Answer: a,b,and c.
400
What was the favorite mechanical device of Boyle and Hooke?
Answer: Their version of an air pump.
500
Name two of Galileo’s major findings with his telescopes
Possible answers: Craters (mountains) on the moon – Jupiter’s moon – Saturn’s rings – dark spots on sun (and not to look directly at it) – Milky Way is made up of thousands of stars – Earth is not the center of the universe
500
Harvey never figured out how blood got from the smallest arteries to the smallest veins. What structure, later discovered by one of his disciples, Marcello Malpighi, is responsible for this?
Capillaries
500
What three things did Bacon write clearly about how science can best advance?
Answers: Scientist must use precise language that is easy to understand – scientist must have open-minds about investigations – scientist must repeat experiments.
500
What was ironic abut Descartes dying at 54?
Answer: He believed he would like to be over 100 since he studied blood.
500
Hooke studied (and is less credited for) the physics of movement and force at the same time as what famous “force” of science?