By 1300, this subject, along with law, medicine, and theology, had become widely accepted in European universities
What is philosophy?
100
Synthesized the views of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo
Who is Newton?
100
Galileo used this instrument to confirm what Copernicus had said about the universe years earlier
What is a telescope?
100
Early scientists were not trying to challenge the views of this powerful social authority
What is the Church?
100
"Principia"
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
Leonardo da Vinci had said that a knowledge of this was the key to understanding the universe
What is mathematics?
200
Ancient anatomist and physiologist
Who is Galen?
200
Translate these words from Descartes: "Cogito ergo sum"
What is "I think, therefore I am"
200
Royal patronage of these helped spread new ideas and views related to science
What are academies?
200
"Pensees"
Who is Blaise Pascal?
300
Early scientific views were based on the ideas of this ancient Greek philosopher
Who is Aristotle?
300
Author of the "Discourse on Method"
Who is Descartes?
300
Isaac Newton is most well-known, although he was maybe not the most proud, of his work concerning the laws of this
What is gravity?
300
The "querelles des femmes" were ____________ about ____________.
What are "arguments about women"?
300
"Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems"
Who is Galileo?
400
This metaphoric symbol came to represent new ideas about how the universe operated
What is a clock?
400
Tried for heresy by the Inquisition for espousing the heliocentric view of the universe
Who is Galileo?
400
William Harvey's work on circulation in the human body led him to conclude that the heart worked more like a pump and not like one of these, what many believed it to be prior
What is a furnace?
400
Maria Sibylla Merian's observations from Surinam were crucial to the development of entomology, which is the study of these
What are insects?
400
"On the Fabric of the Human Body"
Who is Vesalius?
500
The astrolabe, compass, and sextant are all tools associated with this activity
What is sailing, or navigation?
500
Father of empiricism and the inductive method of reasoning
Who is Francis Bacon?
500
Two of Kepler's three laws of planetary motion
What are: 1. orbits are elliptical; 2. Planets do not move at a uniform speed; 3. The closer a planet to the sun, the faster its orbit
500
Monism, or the belief that there is one God with a presence in everything, is attributed to him