Mid-Term Exam Review HSCI 1814

How did the Stoics conceive of the four elements?

What is the problem with retrograde motion for Aristotle's cosmology?

What acted as the centers of learning in the early Middle Ages (ca 400 - 1000)

How did Lucretius explain the sensible qualities of material objects?

Consider the following:

Which Pre-Socratic philosopher thought that change was only an appearance?

For Aristotle, the deductive process by which one arrives at certain knowledge is called what?

Who saw change as being the motion from potentiality to actuality?

What is Aristotle’s theory of matter and form called?

Metaphysically, how did Plato divide reality?

De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) was composed by this person to explain what?

According to Galen, what was in the arteries?

Which Pre-Socratic philosopher thought that the basic element of the cosmos was air?

What is the natural motion of celestial bodies and what are they made of?

For the Stoics, what was the interpenetration of substances (like wine with water) called?

What does this image show?

Which of Ptolemy's tools for saving the appearances does this image show?

Which Pre-Socratic weeping philosopher thought that the world was constantly changing?

Who first spoke of the four elements together as the basic elements of the cosmos?

Which Alexandrian physician is sometimes called "the first anatomist"?

Through which language did many Greek texts pass through to be translated into Latin?

What is the sexagecimal number system and which ancient people used it?

What did Galen think happened to the blood in the body?

Which Alexandrian physician is sometimes called "the mechanist"?

Which Pre-Socratic group thought that numbers were the basic elements of all things?

Who wrote the encyclopedic "Natural History" (Historia Naturalis)?

What were the three major organs in Galen’s system?

How did Plato think one could know the sensible realm?

What are the three types of pneuma according to the Stoics?

Why did the Epicureans think one should study nature?

What is the natural motion of terrestrial objects and what are they made of?

What is certain knowledge according to Aristotle?

For the Stoics, what was the fusion of different substances into a new substance called?

What did Galen think one should strive to do in order to learn about the human body?

What is the name of Ptolemy's influential text on astronomy?

Which of Ptolemy's tools for saving the appearances does this image show?

The logical process from general principles to particulars (universals to particulars)?

Which of Aristotle's four causes refers to the mover or maker of a thing?

Which of Aristotle's four causes refers to the purpose of a thing?

What principle does this image show?

For Plato, what were the blueprints upon which all sensible things are based?

Who was the first to offer a mathematical system for saving the apperances?

Which Roman follower of Epicurus conceived of matter as being made of indestructible seeds?

How did Aristotle alter Plato’s idea of the form?

Which Pre-Socratic Philosopher thought all that existed was atoms and void?

According to Aristotle, how many concentric spheres made up the universe?

What does "saving the appearances" refer to?

What is the inner principle of a thing that drives it to act like things of its kind?

What is retrograde motion?

The logical process from particulars to general principles (particulars to universals)?

What is significant about Hippocratic medicine as opposed to earlier types?

What does the Quadrivium refer to?

In Alexandrian medicine, what substance was thought to be inside the nerves?

What does the Trivium refer to?

What was one of the significant consequences of the split of the Roman empire?

Which Pre-Socratic philosopher thought that the basic element of the cosmos was water?

What two languages represented the split East and West Roman empire?

In Alexandrian medicine, what substance was thought to be inside the arteries?

Motion that violates a thing’s natural motion is called what?

According to Aristotle, the element Earth was made up of which qualities?

During change of a material object, what did Aristotle think was happening?

According to Aristotle, the element Air was made up of which qualities?

Which of the four humors corresponded to the element earth?

Which of the four humors corresponded to the element air?

What are the three states of being for Aristotle?

Which Christian thinker thought natural philosophy had no place with religion?

How did Aristotle account for elemental transmutation?

According to Aristotle, what is the principle of motion and change?

Which Pre-Socratic philosopher thought that the basic element of the cosmos was the boundless?

What planet acted as the boundary between the two realms according to Aristotle

Whose calendar system is the modern scheme mostly indebted to?

Which early Christian thinker believed that philosophy should be the handmaiden to theology?

Which of Ptolemy's tools for saving the appearances does this image show?

What was the response to Aristotelian philosophy by universities in the Middle Ages?