Which of the following does NOT characterize the nature of the Scientific Revolution?

Its proponents were hostile to established Christianity

Empiricism if the belief that

Experience, esp. the senses, is the best source of knowledge

William Harvey wrote...

On the Movement of the Heart and Blood

Heliocentrism refers to

the sun being the center of the universe.

what was the scientific revolution?

mixture of logical realization about scientific discoveries

What was Copernicus Main idea?

The idea that the planets rotated around a fixed sun

Tyco Brahe's major contribution to science was?

Compilation of a large amount of astronomical data

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1
Descartes divided existing things into two categories: mind and?
Metaphor
Modality
God
Body
2
Which of the following does NOT characterize the nature of the Scientific Revolution?
It was a complex movement involving many people
Occurred in several diff. places in Europe at the same time
Its proponents were hostile to established Christianity
It was not revolutionary in the normal sense of the word
3
Women of what class had the most freedom to pursue the new sciences?
Artisan/Nobility
Gentry
Peasant
Urban elite
4
Empiricism if the belief that
Reason can reveal all natural truths
All truths exists in the mind
Experience, esp. the senses, is the best source of knowledge
Truth as such, does not exist
5
In the 15th c, the standard explanation of the arrangement of heavens were based on work of Ptolemy and ___?
Aristotle
Plutarch
Socrates
Plato
6
William Harvey wrote...
On the Movement of the Heart and Blood
Progress of the Human Mind
Cognito Ergo Sum
Principia
7
Accomplishments that most captured the public imagination during the Sci. Rev. occurred in?
Physics
Astronomy
Chemistry
Medicine
8
Who were often accused or persecuted in witch hunts?
women, outcasts
farmers, workers
men
children
9
What did Sir Isaac Newton discover?
Laws of energy
Laws of gravitation and motion
Laws of circular motion
Water
10
What scientific approach did Francis Bacon promote?
Alchemy
Aristotelianism
Scholasticism
Empiricism
11
Heliocentrism refers to
the moon being the center of the universe.
the earth being the center of the universe.
the Milky Way being the center of the universe.
the sun being the center of the universe.
12
Which of the following figures played a key role in popularization of Copernicanism?
Kepler
Galileo
Newton
Brahe
13
what was the scientific revolution?
movement where people thought about things in a logical way
branched off enlightenment, as another movement.
People didn't want to go to church on Sunday.
mixture of logical realization about scientific discoveries
14
What was Andreas Vasalius most famous for?
Being a surgeon
Supporting supernatural ideas
Supporting Galen
Studying human anatomy
15
What was Copernicus Main idea?
the idea of inertia was wrong
The idea that the stars rotated around a fixed earth
the idea that God was the cause of everything
The idea that the planets rotated around a fixed sun
16
Tyco Brahe's major contribution to science was?
Compilation of a large amount of astronomical data
Proof of Copernican system
Discovery of moons of Jupiter
Support of Galileo

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