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Who started the Scientific Revolution?
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Who wrote "On the Movement of Heavenly Spheres"
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Why was Galileo Galilei alienated?
The church felt attacked by his support of the heliocentric world model.
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What is another name commonly used for the beginning stages of the Scientific Revolution?
Copernican Revolution
100
What is x+y divided 4 if x-y equals to 45.89x 43.56 over 230.235 provided that y>456.
The American Potato
200
Who found out that planets circle each other in oval form?
Johannes Kepler
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What book by William Gilbert discussed the magnetism of the earth?
On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth or The Magnet
200
Name the type of solar-system that the Catholic church supported and which it denied.
The Catholic Church supported: geocentric system denied: heliocentric or tychonian system.
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Who was it that popularized the "Scientific Method"?
Francis Bacon
200
Who invented the first prototype for a steam engine?
Thomas Newcomen
300
Who was deeply religious yet a successful scientist?
Isaac Newton
300
In what book did Galileo Galilei summarize a good 40 years work?
Two New Sciences
300
Name the the era that came before the Scientific Revolution.
The Renaissance
300
Who invented the cartesian coordinate system?
René Descartes
300
Who was the pope that felt attacked by Galileo Galilei.
Pope Urban VIII
400
Name one person who argued that the Universe is infinite?
Thomas Digges or Giodarno Bruno or Rene Descartes
400
What book by Andreas Vesalius paved the road for modern day anatomy?
On the Fabric of the Human Body
400
Whose philosophy was most influential during the Scientific Revolution?
René Descartes
400
What type of world model did Tycho Brahe invent? Define said world-model.
He invented the Tychonic/Tychonian System. It is a world model which the plantes are arranged in a geocentric way, but the plantes move in heliocentric way.
400
What is the name of Nicolaus Copernicus's book in Latin?
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
500
Who Discovered the two moons of Jupiter? Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
500
What series of books by Isaac Newton laid the foundation for the classical mechanics of mathematics.
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy or Principia
500
What war broke out during the Scientific Revolution?
30 years War
500
Who invented the first mechanical calculator (mass produced)?
Gottfried Leibniz
500
Who painted the very first self portrait?
Joseph Ducreux