AP Euro Ch. 16 Quiz

Question 1

According to Leonardo da Vinci, what subject was the key to understanding the nature of things?

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Math

Question 2

The scientist whose work led to the law about the volume of gas

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Boyle

Question 3

Copernicus was a native of

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Poland

Question 4

The Ptolemaic conception of the universe was also known as

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Geocentric

Question 5

The Greco-Roman doctor who had the most influence on medieval medical thought was

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Galen

Question 6

Benedict Spinoza believed that women

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were naturally inferior to men

Question 7

Margaret Cavendish attacked the belief

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Thathumans through science were masters of nature.

Question 8

On the Fabric of the Human Body was which scientist's book on anatomical structure?

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Vesalius

Question 9

In Newton’s Principia, he demonstrated through his rules of reasoning that the universe was

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a regulated machine with universal laws

Question 10

Antoine Lavoisier

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Isregarded as the father of modern chemistry.

Question 11

The key figure that inspired the search for natural laws in other fields was

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Newton

Question 12

What was the name of Descartes’ book that expounded histheories about the universe?

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Discourseon Method

Question 13

The first European to make systematic observations of the heavens by telescope was

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Galileo

Question 14

The philosophy of Rene Descartes

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stressed a separation of mind and matter

Question 15

Which of these ancient authorities was not relied on by medieval scholars?

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Galileo

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