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Scientific Rev.
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His influential work
The Principia
set the standard for math and physics for over 200 years.
Newton
Bacon
Descartes
Galileo
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He established that the planets moved in elliptical, not circular, paths around the sun.
Galileo
Bacon
Kepler
Copernicus
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His philosophical theories have had a major impact on Western intellectual development.
Descartes
Kepler
Galileo
Copernicus
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He retracted his support for heliocentric theories under pressure from the Catholic Church.
Galileo
Newton
Copernicus
Kepler
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His work in mathematics revolutionized the field of geometry.
Copernicus
Bacon
Descartes
Kepler
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He is credited with the introduction of the Scientific Method.
Descartes
Bacon
Galileo
Kepler
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His laws of physics were unchallenged until the arrival of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
Copernicus
Newton
Galileo
Descartes
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His telescopic observations of the moon revolutionized human understanding of space.
Descartes
Galileo
Bacon
Kepler
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The first astronomer of the Scientific Revolution to offer a heliocentric system.
Newton
Copernicus
Galileo
Kepler
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The system of inquiry that drove forward many breakthroughs of the Scientific Revolution was:
The Scientific Method
Theology
Pure guesswork
Rationalism
