The Universe
Scientific Method
Medicine and Chemistry
Links to Science
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Who published "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres?"
Nicolaus Copernicus
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What is step #1 of the scientific method?
State the problem.
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Who refined the alchemists' view of chemicals as basic building blocks?
Robert Boyle.
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Where was Isaac Newton a student at?
England.
200
What is the sun centered, model of the universe?
heliocentric
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What is the scientific method?
a step-by-step process of discovery that has evolved
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When did the dramatic changes in medicine and chemisty happen?
1500s and 1600s.
200
What was Newton's book explaining?
The law of gravity and other workings of the universe.
300
What did people think about the reasoning of the planets?
They thought that it was wrong.
300
What is a hypothesis?
A possible explanation.
300
What did Andreas Vesalius publish?
"On the Structure of the Human Body"
300
What single force keeps the planets in their orbit around the sun?
Gravity.
400
What did Johannes Kepler used Brahe's data for?
To calculate the oribit of the planets revolving around the sun.
400
Who were two giants of the revolution?
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes.
400
What did physician Ambroise Pare develop?
A new more effective ointment for preventing infections.
400
What branch of mathematics is still applied today?
Calculus.
500
How many moons does Jupiter have?
Four moons.
500
What is the "famous" statement?
I think, therefore I am.
500
Who described the circulation of the blood and when?
William Harvey, 1600s.
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What age did Isaac newton form a theory as why the planets moved as they did?
24.
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