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You Blinded Me with Science
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This person put forth the Heliocentric Theory
Who is Copernicus?
100
Two theories with differing views on the center of the universe.
What are Heliocentric and Geocentric?
100
This man spent the last years of his life under house arrest because he promoted Copernicus' idea that the Heliocentric theory was wrong.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
100
The primary source of knowledge for all people prior to the Scientific Revolution.
What is the Church?
100
This English scientist and mathematician discovered gravitation.
Who is Issac Newton?
200
This forward thinking individual built the first telescope.
Who is Galileo?
200
In the 1600s philosophers concluded that this could be used to solve all human problems.
What is reason?
200
Jean Jacque Rousseau advocated for this.
What is direct democracy?
200
During the Scientific Revolution, European Scientists did this.
What is question traditional beliefs about the universe?
200
The works of Copernicus, Galilei, Newton, and Descartes used this to solve problems.
What is the scientific method?
300
This person was really down to earth. He explained the laws of gravity.
Who is Newton?
300
Deism believes this.
What is the belief in the existence of God on the evidence of reason and nature only?
300
Voltaire's famous quote
What is "I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
300
During the Scientific Revolution this was the Inquisitions job.
What is to combat heresy of the Roman Catholic Church?
300
These seventeenth century scholars contradicted traditional medieval European beliefs.
Who are Galileo Galilei and Rene Descartes?
400
Advances in medicine, especially human anatomy, were made by Andreas Vesalius when he did this.
What is the dissection of executed criminals?
400
The Geocentric Theory does this.
What is put the earth at the center of the universe?
400
The theory that earth is at the center of the universe is called what and was proposed by whom?
What is the Heliocentric Theory and Copernicus?
400
During the Scientific Revolution developments in these areas transformed views of society and nature.
What are mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry?
400
These ideals had great impact in the new nation of the United States.
What is Enlightenment Ideals?
500
Locke believed this could not be taken away by government.
What are their natural rights?
500
The Heliocentric theory describes this.
What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System.
500
John Locke's belief of government purpose with regards to the people.
What is protecting people's natural rights?
500
Before this period, these were the traditional authorities.
What is the Catholic Church and ancient scholars?
500
The Scientific Method has characterized natural science since the 17th century and can be described as this.
What are experimentation and observation used to test hypotheses?