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HIST 1301 F19 Welcome Back from break - time to review!
HIST 1301 F19 Welcome Back from break - time to review!
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1
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
2
The Almagest,an ancient work that influenced Renaissance astronomer Copernicus, was written by:
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Ptolemy
Galen
3
This French thinker tried to replace Aristotelianism with his own system.
Andreas Vesalius
Francois Poulain
Voltaire
Rene Descartes
4
Which was founded first? (In 1660)
Academie des Sciences
Royal Institution
Royal Society of London
British Association for the Advancement of Science
5
What did Francis Bacon mean by "Operationalism"?
Using mathematical operations to understand the universe.
Neither of these
Improving society through medical operations.
Seeking and applying scientific knowledge to make progress.
6
The systems of both __ and __ are dualistic ( 2 materials: matter and soul, make the universe).
Plato, Descartes
Plato, Bacon
Aristotle, Bacon
Aristotle, Descartes
7
This Englishman published the Novum (New) Organum in 1620
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
Isaac Newton
Roger Bacon
8
This frontispiece to Spratt's History of the Royal Society depicts Brouckner, Charles II and:
Robert Hooke
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
9
This astronomer wrote the 1512 Commentariolus which considered and refuted Ptolemy’s system
Copernicus
Galileo
Bellarmine
Brahe
10
What element did Humphrey Davy discover at the Royal Society of London by applying electricity to molten potash?
sodium
potassium
phosphorus
fluoride
11
Who revealed the microscopic world by publishing the book
Micrographia
?
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
Robert Hooke
12
The Novum Organum challenged ancient authority, systems and methods. Organum means:
Book
Tool
Method
Inquisition
13
Who designed the mitre gates that were used in pound locks?
Franklin
van Muscenbroek
Volta
da Vinci
14
The Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe resulted in:
A heavy reliance on manual labour
A move to mechanical rather than animal/human power
Widespread unemployment and starvation
The end of small farms and farming
15
Who wrote
Elements of Chemistry
and together with his wife identified 33 of the elements?
Lavoisier
Black
Franklin
Priestly
16
By _ all extant Greek works on medicine, natural phil., logic & math were translated to Arabic
1000CE
1200CE
336CE
1426CE
17
Galileo's drawings of the moon were revolutionary because:
he moon was bigger than previously thought
There was a face on the moon
The moon was not a perfect sphere
It demonstrated the perfection of the cosmos
18
What was the
Aeolipile,
designed by Heron of Alexandria?
The first automaton
A mechanical figurine of a lady who plays the lute
A complex device for telling time
The earliest known steam powered machine
19
Bacon believed that lack of progress was due to ....
lack of imagination
lack of application
lack of knowledge
lack of skill
20
This Renaissance anatomist combined print technology, Renaissance art and anatomical discovery.
Robert Boyle
Leonardo daVinci
Andreas Vesalius
Johanes Gutenberg
21
ibn Sina (Avicenna) author of
The Canon of Medicine
said this element was
prime matter
.
Gold
Hydrogen
Salt
Mercury
22
The three men in this image are:
Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Plato
Aristotle, Saint Gerome, Plato
Socrates, Augustus, Aristotle
Empedocles, Thomas Moore, Pythagoras
23
Who published The Starry Messenger in 1610?
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
Brahe
24
William Perkin, the father of Industrial Chemistry, discovered mauve while trying to make:
alanine
quinine
cinchona
none of these
25
In an experiment using Mercuric Oxide Joseph Priestly discovered and Antoine Lavosier named:
helium
oxygen
halogen
hydrogen
26
The Islamic Empire imported paper making technology from this Empire
Chinese
Ottoman
Greek
Roman
27
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity fire will always ____
Move toward the sun
Move away from the centre of the universe
Move toward the centre of the universe
28
German alchemist Henning Brand used human urine to discover phosphorus. Why did he start with urine?
It was a similar colour to gold.
He was trying to isolate ammonia.
It came from a living human body.
They knew the power of urea.
29
Aristotle believed the Sphere of the Cosmos to be divided into the ________ realms
Wet and Dry
Celestial and Terrestrial
Starry and Earthy
Earth and Air
30
Who published the
Starry Messenger
in 1610?
Kepler
Bacon
Galileo
Newton
31
If you attended a medieval university you would study
The seven liberal arts
Whatever you were most interested in
Business
Only what the church approved
32
Why did European Alchemists refer to Aristotle's
Meteorology
?
It had recipes to transmute metals into greater metals
Aristotle proposed how metal formed and they wanted to copy
They believed Aristotle was the greatest alchemist
It promised gold and glory
33
Copernicus's On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres (1543):
Was written in the vernacular
Was a bestseller with many reprints
Proposed a heliocentric universe
Supported the biblical geocentric universe
34
Which resource industry lead to the discovery of different types of "air"?
None of these
Agriculture
Mining
Deep sea fishing
35
Who invented the first battery that supplied a continuous stream?
Isaac Newton
Luigi Galvani
Alessandro Volta
Benjamin Franklin
36
Who discovered the conservation of mass by running an experiment backwards?
Priestly
Lavoisier
Montgolfier
Brand
37
According to Aristotle which classification of animal belonged highest on the hierarchy?
crustacea
testacea
oviparous quadrupeds
viviparous quadrupeds
38
The pictured medieval technology is a:
Rice Paddle
Saw mill
Water Wheel
Flour Mill
39
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity a book sitting on a desk is subject to forced motion.
False
True
40
This image is from
Hooke'sMicrographia
Lamark'sZoological Philosophy
Linnaeus'sSystem of Nature
Diderot'sEncylcopedie
