Scientific Thinkers and Ideas
French mathematician started work on a device to calculate taxes that some consider the first digital calculator?
Who is Blaise Pascal?
Sir Francis Bacon’s scientific method based on?
What is inductive reasoning?
Became the strongest German state after the Thirty Years’ War?
What is Prussia?
Which of the following led to increased food supplies during the agricultural revolution?
What are windmills?
William Shakespeare wrote in many of his plays of the conflict between which two countries
What are France and England?
Isaac Newton is best known for?
What is studying gravity and developing three laws of motion?
Catholic Church responded to the research of Bacon and Galileo by ?
What is that the Catholic Church arrested both men?
The nation that was Catholic but fought for the Protestants in the Thirty Years’ War?
What is France?
Dissected human corpses to create careful descriptions of human anatomy.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
Bassi, Agnesi, and Herschel were all?
What is they were all women recognized for their contributions to science?
Is remembered for saying, “I think, therefore I am”?
Who is Rene Descartes
advanced science most between the 7th and 12th centuries?
Who were Muslim scholars?
The document, signed by William and Mary, which guaranteed important freedoms to the English?
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Female scholar Maria Agnesi is known for her work in what subject?
What is mathematics?
Which monarch was most successful at reaching peaceful compromises with Parliament?
Who is Elizabeth I
the ideas promoted by Bacon and Descartes become known as?
What is scientific rationalism?
Nicolaus Copernicus’s work impacted Galileo Galilei by ?
What is Galileo invented a telescope and confirmed Copernicus’s theory?
How were the monarchies of England and France fundamentally differ?
What is that England shared power between the monarch and Parliament?
In the Linnaean system, organisms are given scientific names based on what two categories?
What are genus and species ?
Irish scientist that discovered the volume of a gas changes according to air pressure?
Who is Robert Boyle?
Scientists like Bacon, Newton, Kepler, and Boyle viewed this as the goal of scientific research?
What is to better understand God’s creation?
How did Copernicus’s ideas differ from Aristotle’s conclusions?
What is that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun?
The effect of the Glorious Revolution?
What is that the Stuarts were replaced and the English Bill of Rights set limit on the monarch?
many people lost food security during England’s agricultural revolution because?
What is that affordable food sources were taken away?
Method that involved moving from general principles to specific truths
What is a deductive approach ?