Scientific Revolution Astronomers
Philosophy and Changes in Science
Inventions, New Ideas and Women
Science and Religion
Superstition and Baroque Art
100

A Polish priest and astronomer who developed the Heliocentric Model, challenging and rejecting the Church views of the cosmos.

Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?

100

A new science worldview came out of this ideology of education and thinking that had prompted the Italian Renaissance?

What is humanism?

100

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek used this item to discover various animals and plants in a single drop of water from a local pond.

What is the microscope?

100

Galileo decided to challenge the Catholic Church and the Bible through his research and new knowledge of the cosmos. What organization stated the church  was the only authority to interpret the Bible?

What is the Council of Trent?

100

A person (typically a woman) trained to assist women in childbirth, and known as a wise women across Europe because of their knowledge and medical skills.

What is a midwife?

200

An Italian astronomer who wrote the Starry Messenger (1610) and Letters on Sunspots (1613) while embracing the Heliocentric model and challenging church beliefs through the use of his telescopes.

Who is Galileo Galilei?

200

An English philosopher who met Descartes and Galileo and translated classical works from Thucydides. He later claimed "human beings in their natural state are inclined and restless for power".

Who is Thomas Hobbes?

200

This invention is actually credited to a Dutch eyeglass maker, Hans Lippershey, not Galileo.

What is the telescope?

200

Francis Bacon established a key framework trying to reconcile science and religion by claiming that there were two books of divine revelation

What is "the Bible and Nature"?

200

A style of art associated with 17th century painting, sculpture, and architecture that is dramatic and mysterious by implementing gothic technique.

What is Baroque Art?

300

An English astronomer who developed the 3 Laws of Motion, while publishing his findings in a book titled The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

Who is Isaac Newton?

300

A French philosopher who did not accept things as true if it was not proven, he also is known for claiming that knowledge begins with doubt, while he combined thinking and reason to establish proof.

Who is René Descartes?

300

Isaac Newton was finally able to answer Kepler's question as to how the elliptical movement of planets occurred.

What is gravity?

300

This Catholic order who focused on education, were active in scientific studies and experimentation.

Who are the Jesuits?

300

They were often considered witches in 17th century Europe because they practiced magic without a special blessing from the Catholic Church.

Who were women?

400

A German astronomer who used Brahe's research and determined that all planets moved in elliptical motions, as he published a book in 1609 titled The New Astronomy advocating his theories.

Who is Johannes Kepler?

400

An English philosopher who portrayed the natural human state free and equal to attain natural rights of life, liberty, and property in his book titled, Second Treatise of Government.

Who is John Locke?

400

1. Stating the Problem 2. Gathering Information 3. Forming a Hypothesis 4. Testing 5. Recording 6. Conclusion

What is the Scientific Method?

400

The reason the Catholic Church opposed the heliocentric theory of the universe

What is it challenged teachings of the church and works of Ptolemy?

400

The emergence of a more scientific point of view, and advances in medicine.

What ended the witch hunts?

500

A Danish astronomer who challenged the Heliocentric model by creating his own theories, however, is mostly noted for producing a vast amount of astronomical observable data which his successors later utilized.

Who is Tycho Brahe?

500

An English philosopher who used a systematic approach to reveal the truth about how nature works and believed science should be used to improve mankind. 

Who is Francis Bacon?

500

An English writer who wrote on scientific subjects, quarreled with Descartes and Hobbes, criticized the Royal Society and wrote books while being the only women allowed to participate in the Royal Society in London.

Who is Margaret Cavendish?

500

A French Mathematician and a physical scientist who surrendered his wealth to pursue a self-disciplined life, as he made an effort to reconcile faith and new science.

Who is Blaise Pascal?

500

Famous Baroque artist who worked in St. Peter's Basilica under the direction of Pope Urban VIII. This artist oversaw the construction of the great tabernacle where St. Peter is said to be buried under the church.

Who is Gian Lorenzo Bernini?