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HIST 1301 to Galileo W19
HIST 1301 to Galileo W19
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1
If you attended a medieval university you would study
Business
Whatever you were most interested in
Only what the church approved
The seven liberal arts
2
The pictured medieval technology is a:
Water Wheel
Rice Paddle
Flour Mill
Saw mill
3
The Almagest,an ancient work that influenced Renaissance astronomer Copernicus, was written by:
Galen
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Pythagoras
4
This image is from the revolutionary text:
Encyclopedie de Diderot
Micrographia
On the Fabric of the Human Body
Principia
5
The medieval Trivium (pictured here) consisted of which of the following:
Writing, Reading, Arithmetic
Mathematics, Astronomy, Geometry
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic
Medicine, Law, Theology
6
The Quadrivium (pictured here) was comprised of:
Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music
Geometry, Arithmetic, Calculus, Algebra
Logic, Rhetoric, Law, Theology
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Composition
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Which of the following was NOT an important prerequisite for scientific thinking?
Prosperity
Democracy
Literacy
Contact with other cultures
8
This astronomer wrote the 1512 Commentariolus which considered and refuted Ptolemy’s system
Brahe
Bellarmine
Galileo
Copernicus
9
The three men in this image are:
Socrates, Augustus, Aristotle
Aristotle, Saint Gerome, Plato
Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Plato
Empedocles, Thomas Moore, Pythagoras
10
Who published The Starry Messenger in 1610?
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
Brahe
11
The Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe resulted in:
A move to mechanical rather than animal/human power
Widespread unemployment and starvation
The end of small farms and farming
A heavy reliance on manual labour
12
By _ all extant Greek works on medicine, natural phil., logic & math were translated to Arabic
1200CE
336CE
1000CE
1426CE
13
Galileo's drawings of the moon were revolutionary because:
It demonstrated the perfection of the cosmos
he moon was bigger than previously thought
The moon was not a perfect sphere
There was a face on the moon
14
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity a book sitting on a desk is subject to forced motion.
True
False
15
Which of Plato's dialogues survived almost intact through the Middle Ages?
Timaeus
Theagues
The Republic
On Virtue
16
This Renaissance anatomist combined print technology, Renaissance art and anatomical discovery.
Andreas Vesalius
Robert Boyle
Leonardo daVinci
Johanes Gutenberg
17
Copernicus's On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres (1543):
Was a bestseller with many reprints
Was written in the vernacular
Proposed a heliocentric universe
Supported the biblical geocentric universe
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This thinker tried to combine the Copernican, Aristotelian universes and the work of Plato:
Bellarmine
Newton
Kepler
Brahe
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Whose system is this?
Isaac Newton
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Nicholas Copernicus
