Medieval thinkers, like the Greeks before them, based their understanding of the world on everyday experience or ...
What is commonsense?
100
The Greeks had this view of the world, based on experience and reason.
What is geocentric?
100
A set pattern of research involving experimentation and observation.
What is the Scientific Method?
100
This individual, who expanded on Anton van Leeuwenhoek's work with lenses by building the microscope, became Newton's most contentious foe.
Who is Robert Hooke?
100
The universal orderliness, outlined in the Great Chain of Being, also contained the concept of universal interdependence.
What is "correspondences"?
200
To medieval people, everything in nature was connected to everything else, plants, animals etc. Even the earths crust was viewed as...
What is skin?
200
This Polish astronomer and mathematician questioned the geocentric view of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
200
An early adoption of the scientific method by this scientist was used to determine if balls of different weights followed Aristotle's ideas of motion.
Who is Galileo?
200
In 1543 this physician from Belgium, challenged the ideas of Galen on how the body functioned.
Who is Vesalius?
200
In Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus the main character is trying to go beyond the boundaries established by...
What is The Great Chain of Being?
300
As a result of contact with Muslims commerce began to change a great deal because of the adoption of this.
What is the concept of zero?
300
"In the middle of all sits the Sun enthroned. Could we place this luminary in any better position from which he can illuminate the whole at once?" Copernicus
What is the heliocentric universe theory?
300
The impact of the scientific method was felt in two major ways. First, the pace of scientific discovery quickened. Second, and more importantly...
What is the new way knowledge was judged and accepted?
300
Newton became a close friend of Roy G Biv because of
What is a prism?
300
This Italian astronomer challenged the established cosmological view and was tried for heresy by a Jesuit committee know as ...
What is an inquisition?
400
When answers about natural phenomena could not be explained a few scholars turned to experimentation by these individuals.
What are alchemists?
400
This German astronomer and astrologer used mathematics to reveal the secrets of nature.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
This philosopher/scientist vowed to "never accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such."
Newton stated "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." He was referring to?
Who are Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo?
400
Sir Isaac Newton, a mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, was at risk because of his lack of belief in this concept.
What is the holy trinity? (father, son and holy spirit)
500
The discoveries of new continents and new peoples did not fit with the world described by the Bible and the European view of the world. This came about because of ...
What is exploration?
500
This astronomer wrote the book The Starry Messenger based on his observations including the four moons of Jupiter.
Who is Galileo Galili?
500
As a result of Descartes's influence, the use of rationality- without emotion, intuition, or appeal to supernatural forces-became regarded as...
What is objectivity?
500
As a result of the discoveries of this period the medieval world view, of understanding knowledge, God, and their place in the world was replaced with...
What is the mechanistic world view?
500
This person has been called the Copernicus of theology.