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Changing Views of Our Universe
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This movement pointed toward a future a shaped by a new way of thinking about the physical universe... What was this era or movement called?
What is The Scientific Revolution
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This person was the first person to assemble an astronomical telescope?
What is Galileo Galilei
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This revolutionary thinker stressed experimentation and observation. He wanted science to make life better for people by leading to practical technologies.
What is Bacon
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In the early 1540's French physician Ambroise Pare developed a new and more effective ointment for preventing what?
What is Infection
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Robert Boyle explained all matter as being composed of tiny P_____? that behave in knowable ways.
What is Particles
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At the heart of the Scientific Revolution was the assumption that mathematical laws governed nature and the universe. The physical world, therefore, could be known managed, and shaped by who?
What is People
200
Galileo's discoveries that observed that the four moons of Jupiter move slowly around that planet--exactly, he realized, the way Copernicus said that Earth moves around the sun. His ideas challenged which views that said the heavens were fixed in position to Earth, and perfect?
What is The Christian Church's views
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This thinker emphasized human reasoning as the best road to understanding. He decided to discard all traditional authorities and search for provable knowledge. Left only with doubt, he concluded that doubt was the only thing he could not question, and that in order to doubt he had to exist as a rational, thinking being. Therefore he made his famous statement, "I think, therefore I am."
What is Descartes
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In 1543 Andreas Versalius published "On The Structure of The Human Body," this was the first accurate and detailed study of what?
What is the Human Anatomy
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By age 24 a brilliant theorist explained why the planets moved as they did. According to one story, this theorist saw an apple fall from a tree. He wondered whether the force that pulled that apple to Earth might not also control the movements of the planets. In the next 20 years, he perfected his theory. Who is this person?
What is Isaac Newton
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Until the mid-1500', Europeans' views of the universe was shaped by the theories of these ancient writers, what are their names?
What is Ptolemy and Aristotle
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By the early 1600's a new approach to science had emerged, this approach was based upon observation and what?
What is Experimentation
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Over time, a step-by-step process of discovery evolved that became known as the what?
What is The Scientific Method
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This English scholar described the circulation of the blood for the first time. He showed how the heart serves as a pump to force blood through veins and arteries? What is him name?
What is William Harvey
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Using mathematics, Newton showed that a single force keeps the planets in their orbits around the sun. He called this force what?
What is Gravity
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In 1543, Polish scholar Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the theory that the sun stands at the center of the universe, earth is one of several planets that revolve around the sun. What was this theory called.
What is Helicentric or sun-centered theory
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This ancient Greek philosopher taught that man should look beyond simple appearances to learn nature's truths. He believed that mathematics, one of the greatest human achievements, was the key to learning these truths. His teachings were rediscovered by Renaissance scientists and helped shape people's view of the physical world? Who is he?
What is Plato
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The scientific method required scientists to collect and accurately measure data. To explain the data, scientists used reasoning to propose a logical what? Or a possible explanation?
What is Hypothesis
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The Dutch inventor Anton van Leeuwenhoek perfected this instrument? He became the first human to see cells and microorganisms.
What is The Microscope
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Many of Newtons laws of motion and mechanics continue to dominate in theory today. For example, this branch of mathematics partially developed by Newton is still used in classrooms throughout the world today. What is this branch of mathematics called?
What is Calculus
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Tycho Brahe, and Johannes Kepler both used data to support Copernicus' Helicentric Theory, they calculated that orbits of the planets revolve around the sun, furthermore they showed that each planet does not move in a perfect circle, rather in an oval-shaped orbit called a what?
What is Eclipse
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These revolutionary thinkers also challenged the scholarly traditions of the mid-evil universities that sought to make the physical world fit in with the teachings of the Church. Both argued that truth is not known at the beginning of inquiry but at the end, after a long process of investigation.
What is Francis (Bacon,) and Rene (Descartes)
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The 1500's and 1600's saw dramatic changes in many branches of science, especially these two branches M________E and C________Y
What is Medicine and Chemistry
500
In mid-evil times, alchemists believed that any substance could be transformed into any other substance, and many of them tried unsuccessfully to turn ordinary metals into gold. What is another word we use for Alchemy today?
What is Chemistry
500
All motion in the universe can be measured and described through this subject?
What is Mathematics