Scientific Method & Discoveries
This process became the standard way of testing and proving scientific ideas.
What is the scientific method?
Nicolaus __________ introduced the heliocentric (Sun-centered) model of the solar system.
Who is Copernicus?
During the Renaissance, doctors had little knowledge of this and the causes of it.
What is disease?
This Italian woman from Mantua became a respected leader while her husband was away.
Who is Isabella d’Este?
The most powerful institution in Europe during the Renaissance.
What is the Catholic Church?
Many Renaissance scientific ideas came from these earlier civilizations.
What are Greek or Roman civilizations?
Johannes __________ used math to prove planets travel in an elliptical orbit.
Who is Kepler?
Anatomy studies became possible when this practice was legalized in Italian cities.
What is dissection?
A Machiavellian leader values power and efficiency, sometimes over _________.
What is morality or ethics?
Martin __________ nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg.
Who is Luther?
The scientific method led to new discoveries in these three fields.
What are astronomy, medicine, and mathematics?
Galileo also provided new knowledge about these features on the moon and in the Milky Way.
What are craters, mountains, and stars?
These practices were common remedies in the Middle Ages: bloodletting, leeches, and ________.
What is astrology?
Humanism encouraged citizens to do this in their city-state governments.
What is participate or take part?
These were expensive certificates that excused sins.
What are indulgences?
This text, De materia medica, described about 600 plants and their uses. It was like the ancient world’s what?
What is a pharmacy or medicine textbook?
Galileo built telescopes, studied the sky, and confirmed which theory about the universe?
What is the heliocentric theory (Sun-centered universe)?
Andreas __________ wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body, illustrating dissected bodies.
Who is Vesalius?
Machiavelli is often called a “political scientist” because he used this method to study people and power.
What is observation?
The Pope responded by issuing this against Luther, which he burned.
What is an excommunication order?
The value Renaissance thinkers placed on this three-part process led to new scientific ideas.
What are observation, experimentation, and reasoning?
For thousands of years, Europeans believed the Sun went around the Earth. This was called a _________ system.
What is a geocentric system?
François __________ published classical medical works by Greek thinkers like Hippocrates and Galen.
Who is Rabelais?
Machiavelli wrote this influential book about leadership.
What is The Prince?
This series of meetings was the Catholic Church’s response to the Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?