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Week 19 Quiz!
Week 19 Quiz!
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1
Isaac Newton died when he was 47 years old...
False
True
2
The Royal Society's motto was "Nullius in Verba"...
True
False
3
Isaac Newton trained under Galileo for one year...
True
False
4
What does "Nullius in Verba" translate to?
"Take no one's word for it"
"The die is cast"
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The student who served under Newton from 1685 to 1690 claimed he had heard Newton laugh how many times..?
Once
Non-Stop
A couple times
Fourteen
6
Whose manuscripts about herbs and botany was so popular and appealing during the Middle Ages..?
Dioscrodies
Plato
Copernicus
Aristotle
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Who was the majority of Chapters 53 and 54 about..?
Galen
Johannes Kepler
Roger Bacon
Isaac Newton
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What two things made every priority a national victory..?
The printing press and Academies
geometry and trigonometry
philosophy and mathematics
astrology and alchemy
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Isaac Newton was the first popular hero of modern science...
True
False
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What two things did the language of science need to be..?
Restricted to the learned
Simple and Precise
Detailed
Coherent and Intricate
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Unlike facts, what were uncorrectable..?
equations
formulas
myths
theories
12
Simon Stevin wrote a book supporting Copernicus even before Galileo...
True
False
13
Who offered us the decimal system..?
Galileo
Nicolaus Copernicus
Warren Buffett
Simon Stevin
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Who soared on his expansive theories of sensation and physiology..?
Aristotle
Descartes
Isaac Newton
Julius Caesar
