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Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment - McKay Ch. 16
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1
Which STEM field was used by Renaissance painters in their turn toward realism?
alchemy
astronomy
physics
geometry
2
Many Greek texts made their way into western Europe after 1453 because of the
capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire
relaxed import dues on scholarly goods under the Medici
proliferation of new accounting tools like letters of credit
rise in interest in astrology among elites
3
Enlightenment writers took intellectual focus away from antiquity and set an agenda to
solve human problems with mathematics
solve human problems with the methods of science
apply science to art and literature
cure madness
4
The Copernican hypothesis did NOT call into question
the size of the universe
geocentrism
Aristotle's crystal spheres
the movement of stars
5
Galileo was reluctant to join forces with Kepler because he feared
their ideas were too untried to promote
retribution from the Catholic Church
the math used to calculate orbits was flawed
Kepler might steal his ideas
6
Natural philosophers often included which ancient fields in their practices and studies?
astronomy and astrology
sleight of hand and astrology
card reading and astronomy
magic and alchemy
7
Galileo's Sidereal Messenger "exploded" traditional beliefs about the universe by describing
his detailed defense of Aristotle and scholarly tradition
his mathematical calculations of Jupiter's moons
his tortured relations with the Catholic Church
the observations made with his telescope
8
Baron de Montesquieu used satire and the vantage point of outsiders in
The Persian Letters
to
make fun of the old Savafid empire
promote religious toleration
critique Parisian society
answer Voltaire's attacks on the Church
9
Kepler's observations proved that planetary motion is
spherical
circular
irregular
elliptical
10
Cartesian dualism is based on the existence of
heart and soul
blood and bone
mind and matter
brain and brawn
11
The stated goal of Diderot and D'Alembert's
Encyclopedia
was to
change the general way of thinking to a more analytical one
challenge government and church authority in articles
provide all people with the right answers
reject knowledge not scientifically based
12
Johannes Kepler's contribution to astronomy was his proclamation
accepting Aristotelian ideas of motion
blending music and science
of Laws of Planetary motion
rejecting Brahe's conclusions
13
The main feature of the "Newtonian Synthesis" is his
blending of the occult and the scientific
use of shells and pebbles to explain astronomy
law of universal gravitation
scientific method
14
The appearance of a new star in 1572 and a comet in 1577 appeared to contradict
centuries-old beliefs in natural philosophy
the idea of unchanging and perfect heavenly spheres
Copernicus' premise of planetary motion
the existence of God
15
Gottfried Willhelm von Liebnitz was lampooned in Voltaire's
Candide
for his belief that
good and evil are relative values
man lives in the "best of all possible worlds"
time heals all wounds
mind and body are united in one substance
16
Andreas Vesalius was noted for his studies of
natural history
animal society
human anatomy
animal husbandry
17
Galileo was tried for heresy in 1632 because he
supported the intervention of Sweden in the Thirty Years War
supported Protestant ideas
openly challenged traditional views in favor of Copernicus
refused to recant his beliefs and was imprisoned
18
Aristotle and his followers believed that objects are naturally in motion
only in the lunar sphere
when they are in the fifth essence
yes - force is needed to stop them
no - force is needed to move them
19
The experimental method called for
speculation and observation
speculation and belief
observation and then conclusions
tradition and observation
20
Copernicus' ideas about the earth's movement were rejected by some Protestants because they
contradicted some passages in the Bible
appeared to embrace magic
were based on philosophy rather than mathematics
were accepted by scholars at the Council of Trent
21
Pierre Bayle's
Historical and Critical Dictionary
proclaimed the idea that
progress meant religious toleration
government without consent of the people was tyranny
nothing can ever be known beyond all doubt
everything is for the best
22
Descartes' view of the universe was
mechanistic
singular
idealistic
a rejection of so-called "first principles"
23
Blood circulation through veins and arteries was discovered by
Andreas Vesalius
William Harvey
Robert Boyle
Paracelsus
24
Madame du Chatelet believed that women's limited role in science was due to
their lack of equal education
predestination
economic imperatives that cut science from schools
their inability to think mathematically
25
Copernicus did not publish
On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres
until 1543 because he
lacked patronage
wanted to be certain his claims were correct
feared retribution
wanted to translate it into Polish
26
Montesquieu's contribution to American government, found in The Spirit of the Laws was
social contract
objection to tyranny
bicameral legislature
separation of powers
27
Tycho Brahe's contribution to astronomy lay in his
rejection of astrology
his use of sophisticated instruments
compilation of accurate data on planetary motion
blending of Copernican and Ptolemaic ideas
28
Kepler's contributions to science include his pioneering the field of
alchemy
chemistry
optics
gastronomy
29
Empiricism is based on
hypothesis
observation
deductive reasoning
speculation
30
Voltaire and the philosophes believed that religious intoleration led to
inequality
fanaticism
anarchy
reason
31
True of false: Galileo's
law of inertia
proves that objects are naturally at rest
False
True
32
Universities and academies did offer science posts to women in
Italy
Great Britain
Austria
France
33
In his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" John Locke explains the human mind as a
a "tabula rasa" or blank slate
sort of social contract
an empty canvas
predestined propensity for good of evil
34
Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government insisted on the sovereignty of
king over parliament
parliament over king
35
Some women, such as Maria Sibylla Merian combined art & science with careers as
scientific illustrators
cadavers
technical writers
models
36
For Voltaire, the equality that was realizable was
equality under the law
economic equality
equality of the sexes
social equality
37
Francis Bacon was a proponent of
deductive reasoning
, which was based on
using observation to support general ideas
using truths to make further conclusions
38
Science and empire found their interests merging in
cataloging New World plants and animals
fighting Church influences on "truth"
"kings" of science
Imperial decrees of scientific truths