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Chapter 4 Key Individuals Flashcards

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Who speculated that the planets, including the earth, rotate around the sun?

Aristarchus of Samos

Nicolaus Copernicus

Galileo

Johannes Kepler

A

Aristarchus of Samos

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Who urged an inductive, practical science that was free from theoretical influences?

Francis Bacon

Rene Descartes

Michel de Montaigne

Desiderius Erasmus

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Francis Bacon

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Who argued that the earth rotated around the sun and therefore the earth was not the center of the solar system?

Aristarchus of Samos

Nicolaus Copernicus

Galileo

Johannes Kepler

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Who believed that the mind and the body are separate but interacting entities?

Rene Descartes

Michel de Montaigne

Desiderius Erasmus

Galileo

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Rene Descartes

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Who believed there was no objective way of distinguishing among various claims of truth?

Francis Bacon

Michel de Montaigne

Desiderius Erasmus

Johannes Kepler

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Michel de Montaigne

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Who opposed fanaticism, religious ritual, and superstition?

Rene Descartes

Michel de Montaigne

Desiderius Erasmus

Martin Luther

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Desiderius Erasmus

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Who showed several of Aristotle’s ‘truths’ to be false and extended the known number of bodies in the solar system?

Aristarchus of Samos

Nicolaus Copernicus

Galileo

Johannes Kepler

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Galileo

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Who determined the elliptical paths of the planets around the sun?

Rene Descartes

Michel de Montaigne

Desiderius Erasmus

Johannes Kepler

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Johannes Kepler

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Who believed that a major reason for the church’s downfall was its embracing of Aristotle’s philosophy?

Rene Descartes

Michel de Montaigne

Desiderius Erasmus

Martin Luther

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Martin Luther

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Who extended the work of Galileo by showing that the motion of all objects in the universe could be explained by his law of gravitation?

Isaac Newton

Francis Bacon

Rene Descartes

Galileo

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Isaac Newton

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Who is the Greco-Egyptian astronomer known for the Ptolemaic system?

Copernicus

Kepler

Galileo

Ptolemy

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Ptolemy

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