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Scientific Revolution Astronomers
Philosophy and Changes in Science
Inventions, New Ideas and Women
Science and Religion
Superstition and Baroque Art
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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 single idea used to inform others, in different ways, the integration of knowledge and philosophy.
What is mechanism
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 possessed 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 are Midwives
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 meet 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
During the 17th Century people understood knowledge was important. Why was it vital to know things about nature?
What is "to know how nature works, functions, operates, etc."
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
A German female astronomer who published a book on astronomy that many people thought her husband had written until he added a preface supporting her sole authorship.
Who is Maria Cunitz
300
Galileo was condemned to house arrest (in his home near Florence) by the Catholic Inquisition, however, upon leaving the courthouse he claimed ____, keeping his research position regardless of the decision.
What is "And yet it moves"
300
List the three types of people (typically women) who were considered witches in 17th century Europe because they practiced magic without a special blessing from the Catholic Church, the church later declared war on them.
1. Widows- because they were independent after their husbands died. 2. Midwives- blamed for the death of mothers or child during childbirth 3. Healers- because their work gave moral and spiritual authority over the church that is reserved for priests.
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
List the ___ (#) Basic Steps in the Scientific Method. In the exact order.
1. Stating the Problem 2. Gathering Information 3. Forming a Hypothesis 4. Testing 5. Recording 6. Conclusion
400
What year was Galileo formally acquitted of all of his charges? Today, it is regarded as the moment the Roman Catholic Church (lead by Saint Pope John Paul II) admitted that errors had occurred under Pope Urban VIII papacy.
What is 1992 (350 years after Galileo's death, 1642) The official verdict occurred in 1633.
400
What factors ended the Witch Hunts?
1. The emergence of a more scientific point of view 2. Advances in medicine 3. Out of control, and dysfunctional small towns/villages.
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.
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