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| How did Medieval Universities help cause the Scientific Revolution? |
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| There were new professorships/ideas of mathematics, astronomy etc in philosophy. |
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| How is the Renaissance one of the causes of the Scientific Revolution? |
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| It stimulated science by rediscovering mathematics, and studia humanitas (humanist scholars who wanted to learn more about the world in a liberal arts program of study) |
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| How did the Age of Exploration influence the Scientific Revolution? |
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| There were navigational problems on seas, so advances were needed. |
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What/Who began the Scientific Revolution?
This was during? |
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1) Nicolaus Copernicus' On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
2) The Reformation |
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| What did the Heliocentric view seem to challenge? |
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| Bible's Book of Genesis which believed in Ptolemy's Geocentric view. |
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How did Luther and Calvin react to the Heliocentric theory?
How did the Catholic Church react to it? |
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1) Condemned it... went against the Bible
2) Said it was false and persecuted those who believed it. |
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Who was Europe's leading astronomer in the late 16th century who observed the Universe from observatories?
What was his theory about Earth/Sun/Planets? |
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1) Tyco Brahe
2) Planets revolved around Sun which revolved around Earth |
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What did Johannes Kepler (Brahe's assistant) do with Brahe's data after he died?
This was during what time? |
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Proved the Copernican theory
Religious Wars |
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| What were Kepler's 3 laws of planetary motion? |
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1) planets have elliptical orbits
2) planets don't move at uniform speed in orbits
3) farther the planet is from the Sun, the longer it takes to orbit the Sun |
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Who developed the laws of motion during the Counter Reformation?
What were his laws of motion? (not Inertia) |
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1)Galileo Galilei
2) Gravity was a uniformal force w/ uniform acceleration
3) Falling objects descent with same velocity regardless of their weight |
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| What is the Law of Inertia? |
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| object in motion will stay in motion unless something (external force) stops it |
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What did Galileo use to prove Copernicus' heliocentric theory?
Who supported his theory? (group)
What did the Catholic Church do to Galileo? Why? |
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1) Telescope
2) Protestants
3) Put him under house arrest because the Church told him to stop believing in Copernicus' theory, but he continued to do more experiments. |
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Who was the Father of Empiricism?
He believed that change and innovations could benefit who? |
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1) Francis Bacon
2) Humans |
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| Who believed in a deductive method? |
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Who started with specifics and worked to make a broader idea?
Who took a broad idea and broke it down? |
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| The modern scientific method includes both the ______ method and the ______ method. |
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1) Inductive
2) Deductive |
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Who discovered the laws of Gravity and came up with Calculus?
What was his famous book called? |
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1) Isaac Newton
2) Principia |
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| Isaac Newton's discoveries and theories led to the belief of ______ which said that God made the world but has nothing to do with how it functioned. |
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Newton's philosophy led to people to believe in stuff ________ rather than religiously. In other words, they didn't look toward God for why certain things happened, they looked at it more ______.
(same word as above) |
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| 1) Mathematically/Scientifically etc. |
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| What did Andreas Vesalius do? |
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| Modernized the study of human anatomy |
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| Who explained how blood was pumped through the heart in On the Movement of the Heart and Blood? |
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| Who was Anton van Leeuwenhoek? |
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| Father of Microscopy who looked bacteria and other organisms under a microscope. |
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What allowed scientists to communicate with each other internationally?
What was the most prestigious one? |
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1) Royal Scientific Societies
2) The Royal Society in England |
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| How did exploration/navigation benefit from the Scientific revolution? |
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| 1) Many inventions such as the chronometer gave mariners the ability to find the longitude easily |
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| How did medical knowledge benefit from the Scientific Revolution? |
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| Quality of life was improved for the 19th and 20th centuries |
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Why were some women being hunted as witches?
How is the scientific revolution significant to his? |
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1) women were seen as a weak vessel for a witch
2) Leaders would seem to be protecting the people by burning witches
3) It reduced the supersticion of witchcraft and called it a fallacy. |
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| The spirit of experimentation helped accelerate the _____ ________ in the 18th century. |
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When did the Church become more hostile to science?
This caused science to decline ____, but not in ______. |
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1) Catholic Counter Reformation
2) Italy, France |
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| What type of countries became the leaders of the scientific revolution? |
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| What did the Scientific Revolution lead to? |
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