Roots of the Scientific Revolution
Revolutionary Vocabulary
Scientist of the Renaissance
Galileo Galilei
Grab-bag
100
Renaissance thinkers rediscovered the teachings and cultures of ancient Rome and _______
What is Greece
100

What is the precursor of chemistry

What is Alchemy (Chymistry)?

100
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek was the first to use a microscope to see what?
What is bacteria
100
Who was the person who ordered Galileo to Rome to face the Inquisition?
The Pope
100
What do we call the path that one heavenly body (such as a planet) follows around another (such as the sun)?
What is an orbit
200
In the 2nd century CE, Ptolemy said there were only _______ continents. (answer is a number)
What is three
200
What is it called when an idea or assumption is to be tested in an experiment.
A hypothesis
200
Was the first to propose the geocentric theory?
Who is Aristotle
200
Name one of the features Galileo saw with his telescope.
What is features on the Moon/the moons of Jupiter/ the phases of Venus
200
Newton's greatest insight was a force that explained the movement of heavenly bodies. What is this force called?
Gravity
300
The two major sources that guided European thinking was the Bible and _____________
Who is Aristotle
300
What is an object that is fired or launched called?
A projectile
300
Wrote the book “Principia”?
Who is Isaac Newton
300
Galileo used observation and ___________ to solve scientific problems.
Math
300
An instrument used for measuring changes in the pressure of the atmosphere.
What is a barometer
400
Meaning of “Heliocentric”
What is having the Sun at the center
400

Idea that the universe was like a machine

What is the Mechanical philosophy

400
Who discovered that the orbits of the planets were ellipses and not circles.
Who is Johannes Kepler
400
Galileo was officially charged with what? _______________
Heresy
400
Your text named several factors that contributed to the Scientific Revolution. Name one.
Renaissance thinkers questioned traditional learning. Renaissance thinkers observed nature for themselves. Used logic to help people find out how the world works.
500

The thinker that combined Democritus's thinking with Christian faith.

Who is Pierre Gassendi?

500

Belief in God based only on reason and nature, and not on a continuing relationship with the deity?

What is Deism

500

Who was the Briton who created the first steam engine.

Who is Thomas Savery?

500
Name of the book Galileo wrote.
What is "Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems"
500
Name one of the two philosophers who influenced the development of the scientific method.
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes
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