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Roots of the Scientific Revolution
Revolutionary Vocabulary
Scientist of the Renaissance
Galileo Galilei
Grab-bag
100
Renaissance thinkers rediscovered the teachings and cultures of ancient Rome and _______
What is Greece
100
What is The amount of matter in an object called?
Mass
100
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek was the first to use a microscope to see what?
Bacteria
100
Who was the person who ordered Galileo to Rome to face the Inquisition?
The Pope
100
What do we call the path that one heavenly body (such as a planet) follows around another (such as the sun)?
What is an orbit
200
In the 2nd century CE, Ptolemy said there were only _______ continents. (the answer is a number)
Three
200
What is it called when an idea or assumption is to be tested in an experiment.
A hypothesis
200
Was the first to propose the geocentric theory?
Who is Aristotle
200
Name one of the features Galileo saw with his telescope.
What is features on the Moon/the moons of Jupiter/ the phases of Venus
200
Newton's greatest insight was a force that explained the movement of heavenly bodies. What is this force called?
Gravity
300
The two major sources that guided European scientific thinking was the Bible and _____________
Who is Aristotle
300
What is an object that is fired or launched called?
A projectile
300
Wrote the book “Principia”?
Who is Isaac Newton
300
Galileo used observation and ___________ to solve scientific problems.
Math
300
An instrument used for measuring changes in the pressure of the atmosphere.
What is a barometer
400
What is the meaning of “Heliocentric”
What is having the Sun at the center
400
Facts or Information are called what?
Data
400
Who discovered that the orbits of the planets were ellipses and not circles.
Who is Johannes Kepler
400
Galileo was officially charged with what? _______________
Heresy
400
Your text named several factors that contributed to the Scientific Revolution. Name one.
Renaissance thinkers questioned traditional learning. Renaissance thinkers observed nature for themselves. Used logic to help people find out how the world works.
500
The thinker that combined Aristotle's thinking with Christian faith.
Who is Thomas Aquinas
500
The belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge is called what?
What is Rationlism
500
Who was the German who created the first accurate thermometer.
Who is Daniel Gabrile Fahrenheit
500
Name of the book Galileo wrote.
What is "Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems"
500
Name one of the two philosophers who influenced the development of the scientific method.
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes