Conquerer Mehmet bypassed Byzantine defences by:

Hoisting ships out of the water and sliding them over land

Galileo's drawings of the moon were revolutionary because:

The moon was not a perfect sphere

The Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe resulted in:

A move to mechanical rather than animal/human power

According to Aristotle's theory of Levity fire will always ____

Move away from the centre of the universe

What is a cathode tube?

A tube with a partial vacuum with electrodes at each end.

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1
__________ proposed that the world was separated into fire, air, earth, water, love & strif
Anaximander
Empedocles
Thales
Leucippus
2
By _ all extant Greek works on medicine, natural phil., logic & math were translated to Arabic
1200CE
1000CE
336CE
1426CE
3
Aristotle believed nature to be____________
Extrinsic
A mystery
Intrinsic
Tasty
4
Who introduced the use of the ellipse into models of the solar system?
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
Newton
5
Who won the Nobel Prize for having "discovered" the double-helical shape of DNA?
Parsons and Bryant
Watson and Crick
Franklin and Crick
Wilkins and Rutherford
6
When was the terms "science" and "scientist" coined?
1700s
1500s
1800s
1600s
7
The Aristotelian Universe was:
heliostatic
heliocentric
geocentric
8
Conquerer Mehmet bypassed Byzantine defences by:
Using gunpowder to create bombs
Keeping Constantinople under siege until surrender
Hoisting ships out of the water and sliding them over land
Using Greek Fire to burn the Byzantine fleet
9
According to D'Alembert's philosophy of science all knowledge comes from:
Inherited Wisdom
Teachers
Books
Senses
10
This explorer and natural philosopher believed that you had to "be there".
Owen
Darwin
von Humboldt
Goethe
11
"If I have seen far it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Darwin
Copernicus
Hooke
Newton
12
Who founded the Academy in Athens in 388?
Aristotle
Socrates
Empedocles
Plato
13
Goethe believed that there each plant had an Urplflanze, what was it?
The seed
The leaves
It's ability to produce other plants
Its fundamental form
14
Among the Platonic Solids the Cube represented ________
Strife
Water
Air
Earth
15
_________ believed nature to be intrinsic, while ___________ believed it to extrinsic.
Plato, Pre-Socratics
Pre-Socratics, Plato
16
This image is from
Hooke'sMicrographia
Lamark'sZoological Philosophy
Diderot'sEncylcopedie
Linnaeus'sSystem of Nature
17
Steam power became available to British factories after what year?
1833
1813
1785
1665
18
This inventor improved the Savery engine using atmospheric pressure to drive a piston downward
Thomas Newcomen
James Watt
Richard Trevithick
George Stephenson
19
Bacon believed that lack of progress was due to ....
lack of application
lack of knowledge
lack of imagination
lack of skill
20
Galileo's drawings of the moon were revolutionary because:
There was a face on the moon
he moon was bigger than previously thought
It demonstrated the perfection of the cosmos
The moon was not a perfect sphere
21
Which of the following was NOT an important prerequisite for scientific thinking?
Contact with other cultures
Democracy
Prosperity
Literacy
22
Plato called his supreme deity the___________.
Zeus
God
Unmoved mover
Demiurge
23
The Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe resulted in:
Widespread unemployment and starvation
The end of small farms and farming
A move to mechanical rather than animal/human power
A heavy reliance on manual labour
24
Which of Plato's dialogues survived almost intact through the Middle Ages?
Timaeus
The Republic
On Virtue
Theagues
25
von Humbolt is to _______________, as Descartes is to __________
Aistotle, Plato
Plato, Aristotle
Socrates, Plato
26
Who lived the earliest?
Galileo
Bacon
Newton
Descartes
27
Which was founded first? (In 1660)
Academie des Sciences
Royal Institution
Royal Society of London
British Association for the Advancement of Science
28
Who proposed the "plum pudding" model of the atom? (1904)
Rutherford
Watson
Thomson
Wilkins
29
Ptolemy used what to explain retrograde motion?
Epicylces
Aristotelian physics
Platonic solids
Elipses
30
The "rise of the infantry" from 1200-1500 owed its success to what technology?
Crossbows
The Phallanx
Mounted Knights
Archers
31
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity fire will always ____
Move toward the sun
Move toward the centre of the universe
Move away from the centre of the universe
32
What big science project located its main laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico?
Linus Pauling's DNA laboratory
The Human Genome Project
The Manhattan Project
The Trinity Project
33
These illustrations are from....
Owen's "The Nature of Limbs"
Laplace's System of the World
Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants
34
What is the motto of the Enlightenment?
Look for Evidence
Dare to Know
Trust No One
Take Nobody's Word for It
35
Who invented the ballistic pendulum?
Newton
Boyle
Watt
Robins
36
_____ didn't believe that the earth's cycles could result in permanent extinction
Owen
Lamark
Lyell
Paley
37
The Islamic Empire imported paper making technology from this Empire
Greek
Roman
Chinese
Ottoman
38
Whose system is this?
Isaac Newton
Nicholas Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
39
Which of the following cannot be transmuted into the others?
Air
Earth
Fire
Water
40
This painting by Blake is of:
Newton
Galileo
Plato
Voltaire
41
This Renaissance anatomist combined print technology, Renaissance art and anatomical discovery.
Leonardo daVinci
Robert Boyle
Andreas Vesalius
Johanes Gutenberg
42
Plato's Cosmos was the product of...
Reason and planning
The Big Bang
Random combinations of atoms
The will of the gods
43
This astronomer wrote the 1512 Commentariolus which considered and refuted Ptolemy’s system
Brahe
Copernicus
Galileo
Bellarmine
44
What is a cathode tube?
A tube with a partial vacuum with electrodes at each end.
None of these
Tube to contain radioactive elements so as to be safe
Used be Einstein to demonstrate his theory of relativity.
45
Who published a series of lectures called "What is life" and set the hunt for genetic material?
Herbert Spencer
Francis Crick & James Watson
Erwin Schrödinger
Thomas Hunt Morgan
46
Cultural movement that responded against the percieved Enlightenment mechanization of world:
Renaissance
Romanticism
Nostalgia
Newtonism
47
Alvin M. Weinberg: "When history looks at the 20th century, she will see _ and _ as its theme;"
Atoms and Genes
Advancements and Discoveries
Science and Technology
War and Medicine
48
Lamarck's theory of evolution is called:
Orthogenisis
Acquired traits
Spontaneous generation
49
Rutherford ended up disproving this model of the atom as he was trying to prove. What was it?
Newtonian Model
Bohr Model
Plum Pudding Model
Rutherford model
50
Fully Alphabetic Languages were developed by _____ and widely in use by ______
1500 BCE & 800 BCE
100 BCE & 200 CE
800 BCE & 500 BCE
3000 BCE & 2000BCE
51
What does viviparous mean?
non-living
Born live
Born from eggs
living
52
This image is from the revolutionary text:
On the Fabric of the Human Body
Micrographia
Encyclopedie de Diderot
Principia
53
This inventor had to repurpose his engine for entertainment - Watt had cornered the mine market
Newcomen
Savery
Stephenson
Trevithick
54
What technology does Jared Diamond argue is most important for societies to grow?
Industrial
Agricultural
Weaponry
Organizational
55
This Englishman published the Novum (New) Organum in 1620
Robert Boyle
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
Roger Bacon
56
The Novum Organum challenged ancient authority, systems and methods. Organum means:
Tool
Method
Inquisition
Book
57
Paley believed that his argument regarding the watch proved:
Intelligent design
Wonders of evolution
58
Who published the Starry Messenger in 1610?
Galileo
Kepler
Newton
Bacon
59
Copernicus's On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres (1543):
Proposed a heliocentric universe
Was a bestseller with many reprints
Supported the biblical geocentric universe
Was written in the vernacular
60
A Cosmogony seeks to
Understand how the universe works
Explain the basic laws of physics
Explain the origins of the universe
Pass on history
61
Who proved the chromosomal theory of heredity using drosophila melanogaster?
Gregory Mendel
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
62
The pictured medieval technology is a:
Saw mill
Water Wheel
Flour Mill
Rice Paddle
63
Romantic who believed Newton had been deceived by Machines & proposed a new theory of colour
Blake
Shelley
Paley
Goethe
64
This machine was patented in 1769 by Richard Arkwright. What is it?
The spinning jenny
The flying shuttle
The water frame
The power loom
65
Aristotle proposed five elements: earth, air, water, fire, and.
Aether
Firmament
Divine
Quintessence
66
Did Plato believe that you could trust your senses?
Only some of them
Yes
No
67
Brahe proposed a system to reconcile observation and belief. What was at the centre?
Earth
Man
Sun
God
68
According to Aristotle plants, animals, and humans all possessed ____
Sensitive Soul
Rational Soul
Nutritive Soul
69
The Royal Society of London's Coat of Arms reads “Nullius in verba” which means:
Trust only your mind
Nothing but truth
Take nobody's word for it
Reason will prevail
70
Among the Platonic Solids the Dodecahedron represented ______
Water
The universe
Strife
Air
71
Early manufactories (factories) had to be located near what?
train tracks
water
mines
towns
72
What was the most pressing question for philosophers of the 6th century BCE?
What am I?
Is change possible?
Are there gods?
How does the earth move?
73
This is a drawing of:
Newton's three laws of motion
Newton's law of gravity
Newton's crucial experiment
Newton's orbital cannon
74
Who wrote The Principia?
Newton
Lamarck
Voltaire
Bacon
75
Which of the following were one of the flaws of Savery's pump?
You needed horses to operate it
Limited power, it could only remove a few meters of water
It burned wood to create steam and trees were scarce
It could only be located near water so too far from mines
76
The three men in this image are:
Aristotle, Saint Gerome, Plato
Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Plato
Empedocles, Thomas Moore, Pythagoras
Socrates, Augustus, Aristotle
77
Which if these would NOT be considered one of Aristotle's "bloodless" animals?
shark
crab
sea anemone
dragonfly
78
Newton's second law can be summed up by the equation:
la=f
E=MC2
F=ma
M=fa
79
Greek influence is evident in the ________ structure of the Roman Pantheon.
Arched
Marble
Spherical
Dodecahedron
80
Aristotle believed the Sphere of the Cosmos to be divided into the ________ realms
Earth and Air
Wet and Dry
Starry and Earthy
Celestial and Terrestrial
81
According to Aristotle which classification of animal belonged highest on the hierarchy?
crustacea
oviparous quadrupeds
viviparous quadrupeds
testacea
82
The Principia by Isaac Newton was revolutionary because:
It proposed common laws for terrestrial and celestial region
It was heretical
It proved Galileo wrong
It refuted all previous systems of nature
83
19. Aristotle believed that you could trust your senses?
Yes, totally!
Meh, sometimes
No, never!
84
This French thinker tried to replace Aristotelianism with his own system.
Andreas Vesalius
Francois Poulain
Rene Descartes
Voltaire
85
This frontispiece to Spratt's History of the Royal Society depicts Brouckner, Charles II and:
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
Robert Hooke
Isaac Newton
86
According to Goethe Morphology is the study of:
power rangers
forms
spirit
changes
87
The first steam locomotive was introduced in 1814 by:
George Stephenson
Richard Trevithick
Thomas Newcomen
James Watt
88
The medieval Trivium (pictured here) consisted of which of the following:
Writing, Reading, Arithmetic
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic
Mathematics, Astronomy, Geometry
Medicine, Law, Theology
89
Who developed the theory of the archetype (in biology/science)?
Goethe
Paley
Owen
Darwin
90
This is an illustration of:
Clinomania
Polkamania
Pteridomania
Bibliomania
91
If you attended a medieval university you would study
Only what the church approved
Whatever you were most interested in
Business
The seven liberal arts
92
Thomas Savery referred to his method/steam pump by what term?
miner's helper
water vacuum
steam engine
water by fire
93
The Quadrivium (pictured here) was comprised of:
Geometry, Arithmetic, Calculus, Algebra
Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music
Logic, Rhetoric, Law, Theology
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Composition
94
The Almagest,an ancient work that influenced Renaissance astronomer Copernicus, was written by:
Pythagoras
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Galen
95
d'Alembert: The goal of science should be to reduce things to ______ & thereby understand them.
innate structures
basic features
mechanical properties
fundamental natures
96
Who wrote the Almagest?
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
Newton
97
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity a book sitting on a desk is subject to forced motion.
True
False
98
Among the Platonic Solids the Tetrahedron represented ________
Fire
Air
Water
Love
99
Who published The Starry Messenger in 1610?
Kepler
Galileo
Copernicus
Brahe
100
By 3500 BCE Humans could
Read and write
Anticipate seasons
Explain eclipses
Use universal mathematical symbols
101
What is parallax?
The differences between the terrestrial and celestial realms
The way objects shift position because of your perspective
The way that stars and planets appear to move across the sky
The infinite distance to the "fixed stars"
102
In Greek architecture the stone that bridges the top of the columns is called a(n):
Lintel
Arch
beam
Ceiling
103
This thinker tried to combine the Copernican, Aristotelian universes and the work of Plato:
Bellarmine
Brahe
Newton
Kepler
104
Who discovered the neutron in 1932?
Chadwick
Thomson
Rutherford
Wilkins
105
What was the most common incorporation agent used combine the substances that made gunpowder?
water
milk
wine
urine
106
Hutton argued that the story of the earth was cyclical and had a purpose, it was:
to confuse geologists
a mystery
to demonstrate God's power
to make the earth habitable

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