stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
HIST 1301 F19 Welcome Back from break - time to review! Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
HIST 1301 F19 Welcome Back from break - time to review!
HIST 1301 F19 Welcome Back from break - time to review!
40 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
82 plays
history of science and technology
Flashcards
40 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
40
Answers
1
Which resource industry lead to the discovery of different types of "air"?
Deep sea fishing
Agriculture
None of these
Mining
2
Who published the
Starry Messenger
in 1610?
Galileo
Bacon
Newton
Kepler
3
Why did European Alchemists refer to Aristotle's
Meteorology
?
It promised gold and glory
Aristotle proposed how metal formed and they wanted to copy
It had recipes to transmute metals into greater metals
They believed Aristotle was the greatest alchemist
4
The systems of both __ and __ are dualistic ( 2 materials: matter and soul, make the universe).
Plato, Bacon
Aristotle, Bacon
Aristotle, Descartes
Plato, Descartes
5
Who discovered the conservation of mass by running an experiment backwards?
Priestly
Lavoisier
Brand
Montgolfier
6
Who invented the first battery that supplied a continuous stream?
Alessandro Volta
Isaac Newton
Benjamin Franklin
Luigi Galvani
7
This astronomer wrote the 1512 Commentariolus which considered and refuted Ptolemy’s system
Bellarmine
Copernicus
Galileo
Brahe
8
Bacon believed that lack of progress was due to ....
lack of imagination
lack of skill
lack of application
lack of knowledge
9
The Almagest,an ancient work that influenced Renaissance astronomer Copernicus, was written by:
Ptolemy
Galen
Pythagoras
Aristotle
10
Who revealed the microscopic world by publishing the book
Micrographia
?
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Robert Hooke
11
The pictured medieval technology is a:
Flour Mill
Rice Paddle
Water Wheel
Saw mill
12
This French thinker tried to replace Aristotelianism with his own system.
Voltaire
Francois Poulain
Rene Descartes
Andreas Vesalius
13
German alchemist Henning Brand used human urine to discover phosphorus. Why did he start with urine?
They knew the power of urea.
It was a similar colour to gold.
It came from a living human body.
He was trying to isolate ammonia.
14
The Novum Organum challenged ancient authority, systems and methods. Organum means:
Method
Inquisition
Tool
Book
15
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity fire will always ____
Move toward the centre of the universe
Move toward the sun
Move away from the centre of the universe
16
In an experiment using Mercuric Oxide Joseph Priestly discovered and Antoine Lavosier named:
helium
oxygen
hydrogen
halogen
17
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity a book sitting on a desk is subject to forced motion.
True
False
18
If you attended a medieval university you would study
Business
The seven liberal arts
Whatever you were most interested in
Only what the church approved
19
This frontispiece to Spratt's History of the Royal Society depicts Brouckner, Charles II and:
Robert Boyle
Robert Hooke
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
20
Aristotle believed the Sphere of the Cosmos to be divided into the ________ realms
Wet and Dry
Earth and Air
Starry and Earthy
Celestial and Terrestrial
21
Copernicus's On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres (1543):
Proposed a heliocentric universe
Supported the biblical geocentric universe
Was a bestseller with many reprints
Was written in the vernacular
22
The Islamic Empire imported paper making technology from this Empire
Chinese
Greek
Ottoman
Roman
23
Who published The Starry Messenger in 1610?
Galileo
Brahe
Kepler
Copernicus
24
Which was founded first? (In 1660)
Royal Society of London
Academie des Sciences
Royal Institution
British Association for the Advancement of Science
25
This Renaissance anatomist combined print technology, Renaissance art and anatomical discovery.
Leonardo daVinci
Andreas Vesalius
Robert Boyle
Johanes Gutenberg
26
The Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe resulted in:
A move to mechanical rather than animal/human power
The end of small farms and farming
Widespread unemployment and starvation
A heavy reliance on manual labour
27
This Englishman published the Novum (New) Organum in 1620
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
Roger Bacon
28
What did Francis Bacon mean by "Operationalism"?
Neither of these
Seeking and applying scientific knowledge to make progress.
Improving society through medical operations.
Using mathematical operations to understand the universe.
29
Who designed the mitre gates that were used in pound locks?
da Vinci
van Muscenbroek
Franklin
Volta
30
According to Aristotle which classification of animal belonged highest on the hierarchy?
viviparous quadrupeds
crustacea
oviparous quadrupeds
testacea
31
ibn Sina (Avicenna) author of
The Canon of Medicine
said this element was
prime matter
.
Mercury
Salt
Hydrogen
Gold
32
The three men in this image are:
Socrates, Augustus, Aristotle
Aristotle, Saint Gerome, Plato
Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Plato
Empedocles, Thomas Moore, Pythagoras
33
Who wrote
Elements of Chemistry
and together with his wife identified 33 of the elements?
Lavoisier
Franklin
Priestly
Black
34
The Royal Society of London's Coat of Arms reads “Nullius in verba” which means:
Nothing but truth
Trust only your mind
Reason will prevail
Take nobody's word for it
35
This image is from
Diderot'sEncylcopedie
Linnaeus'sSystem of Nature
Hooke'sMicrographia
Lamark'sZoological Philosophy
36
What element did Humphrey Davy discover at the Royal Society of London by applying electricity to molten potash?
phosphorus
sodium
potassium
fluoride
37
William Perkin, the father of Industrial Chemistry, discovered mauve while trying to make:
cinchona
none of these
alanine
quinine
38
Galileo's drawings of the moon were revolutionary because:
he moon was bigger than previously thought
The moon was not a perfect sphere
There was a face on the moon
It demonstrated the perfection of the cosmos
39
By _ all extant Greek works on medicine, natural phil., logic & math were translated to Arabic
1426CE
336CE
1200CE
1000CE
40
What was the
Aeolipile,
designed by Heron of Alexandria?
The earliest known steam powered machine
The first automaton
A complex device for telling time
A mechanical figurine of a lady who plays the lute
