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Scientific Exploration and Enlightenment
Why is Antoine Lavoisier important?
Who wrote "I think, therefore I am."
Scientific Exploration and Enlightenment
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Who wrote "I think, therefore I am."
Rene Descartes
Socrates
Ptolemy
Issac Newton
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Why is Antoine Lavoisier important?
He invented carbon dating
He invented hydrogen peroxide.
He is the father of physics
He invented the system of naming chemical elements
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During the age of enlightenment this flourished
Art
Religion
Philosophy and Science
Politics
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Mathematics played a key role during the Scientific Revolution
True
False
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The belief that the sun is the center of the universe is_____________________
Helium
Hellocentric
Heliocentric
Hellenistic
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What is rationalism
a way to preserve food
A belief that thought is based on knowledge
a belief that men are more intellectual than women
a type of mental illness
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What is the Scientific Method?
A philosophy for scientists
A procedure for gathering and analyzing evidence .
The title of a Science textbook
A way to meditate
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Margret Cavendish brought for the idea that
Human would eventually become extinct
Women were intellectually superior to men
Humans were inferior to animals
Humans , because of science, were masters of the universe.
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What did Galileo discover?
The Moon
Mountains on Earth's moon
The Milky Way
Astronomy
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There are "three laws of motion" according to who?
Kepler
Ptolemy
Newton
Copernicus
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Galileo went to prison
False
True
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The belief that Earth is the center of the universe is_______________
Genomes
Geology
Geocentric
Geography
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The Seven Years War was fought in South America
True
False
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What instrument made scientific discoveries possible and helped ideas spread quickly?
Microscope
All of these
Printing Press
Telescope
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Many scientists were imprisoned for their discoveries during the 1500's
False
True
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Who discovered the universal law of gravitation?
Copernicus
Mr. Spivey
Sir Issac Newton
Johannes Kepler
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How did Renaissance intellectuals view mathematics?
It was used only for business
It was heresy.
Mathematics was the key to everything.
It was banned.
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Who developed the Scientific Method?
William P. Bacon
Francis Bacon
Kevin Bacon
Francis Underwood
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What is deism?
a religious faith
A belief in demons
Philosophy based on reason and natural laws
a type of mathematics
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Where was Earth according to Ptolemy ?
beyond Pluto
fixed in deep space
revolving around the sun
In the center of the universe
