This is a method which involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed and formulating a hypotheses via induction; and refinement (or elimination) based on the experimental findings.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This is a form of Christianity that originated with the 16th-century Reformation, a movement against what its followers perceived to be errors in the Catholic Church.
What is Protestantism?
This was an influential figure who developed the field of calculus and established several fundamental physical laws.
Who is Issac Newton?
This was a corrupt practice of the Medieval Catholic Church in which prestigious Church positions were given to family members.
What is nepotism?
This is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. It emphasizes the role of observable, or otherwise experiential, evidence in the formation of ideas, rather than innate ideas or traditions.
What is empiricism?
This was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science in the 16th and 17th centuries, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, etc., transformed the views of society about nature.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This was an influential figure who confirmed the theories of Copernicus through observation on a refined telescope.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This was a corrupt practice of the Medieval Catholic Church in which time and suffering in Purgatory was allegedly reduced by the selling of papal notes.
What are indulgences?
This is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
What is the printing press?
This is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.
What is the heliocentric model?
This was an influential figure who helped development scientific thought by emphasizing the importance of empirical evidence and the induction of general scientific laws from testable observations.
Who is Francis Bacon?
This is the astronomical model in which the Sun, moon, and stars revolve around the Earth.
This was a German professor of theology, priest, author, composer, Augustinian monk, and a seminal figure whose refusal to renounce all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope.
Who is Martin Luther?
These were a series of wars waged from 1520-1648 that disrupted the religious and political order in Europe.
What are the Wars of Religion?
This is the historical term for the reinvigoration of Catholic fervor for individual spiritual experience, as well as an official denouncement of Protestantism.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
This is the process of performing a scientific procedure, especially in a laboratory, to determine something; the hope is that the findings will uncover some fundamental truth is both testable and observable.
What is experimentation?
This was the council of the Catholic Church held between 1545 and 1563 which issued condemnations of what it defined to be heresies committed by proponents of Protestantism.
What is the Council of Trent?
This is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther.
What are the 95 Theses?
This was a corrupt practice of the Medieval Catholic Church in which prestigious Church positions were sold.
What is simony?
This figure is often credited with beginning the Scientific Revolution in 1543 with the publication of his theories about the solar system
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?