SCIENCE
A comet was named for this English scientist.
Who was Edmond Halley?
This monarch was most successful as an absolute ruler.
Who was Louis XIV?
This scientist used a telescope to observe the earth's orbit around the sun.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
This term describes a godless society.
What is secularism?
This man is considered to be the Father of modern medicine.
Who was Hippocrates?
Among other things, this man discovered laws of gravity.
Who was Isaac Newton?
This female monarch of Austria improved the lives of peasants.
Who was Maria Theresa?
This scientist discovered the circulatory system of the human body.
Who was William Harvey?
This is the idea, promoted by John Locke, that truth is determined by personal experience and observation.
What is empiricism?
This man is the father of geometry.
Who was Euclid?
This Christian scientist wrote The Sceptical Chymist.
Who was Robert Boyle?
This man had the title of Lord Protectorate after leading Parliament to win England's civil war.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
This scientist studied human anatomy.
Who was Vesalius?
This philosophy, promoted by Descartes, stated that human reason and logic was the key to finding truth.
What was rationalism?
This man shared Muslim scientific knowledge with European universities in the Middle Ages.
Who was Albert the Great?
This man is known as the Father of modern chemistry.
Who was Lavoisier?
This couple signed the English Bill of Rights.
Who were William and Mary?
This astronomer discovered Uranus.
Who was Herschel?
This rationalist treated the Bible as a historical artifact.
Who was Spinoza?
This Greek scientist calculated the circumferance of the earth.
Who was Eratosthenes?
This man developed a smallpox vaccine.
Who was Edward Jenner?
This monarch ruled England after Cromwell's death.
Who was Charles II?
Who was Copernicus?
Also known as the Age of Reason, this period of history saw new ideas emerge that threatened to undermine the teachings of Christianity.
What was the Enlightenment?
This medieval scientist made discoveries in the areas of optics, physics, and geography.
Who was Roger Bacon?