Chapter 5.3 Foundations for the Age of Science

Question 0

The Greeks’ explanation for the origin of life was _____ ____, or living things arising from nonliving things. One philosopher taught that living things were produced by mud

Answer 0

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION

Question 1

The Greeks believed that “everything is material,” meaning nothing is spiritual and there is no God. This erroneous idea is called ______

Answer 1

MATERIALISM

Question 2

People looked to the Ancient Greek philosopher _____ for ideas about science

Answer 2

ARISTOTLE

Question 3

The main reason for the increased development of science since the 16th century was the return to the bible sparked by the ____ ____

Answer 3

PROTESTANT REFORMATION

Question 4

______ ______, a physician and teacher published “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” (The Structure of the Human body), usually called the “Fabrica” in 1543

Answer 4

ANDREAS VESALIUS

Question 5

____ ____, an English physician and physiologist, is known for his study of the circulation of blood through the body

Answer 5

WILLIAM HARVEY

Question 6

______ ____ performed the first experiments disproving spontaneous in the mid 1600s. To prove that maggots develop from eggs laid by flies

Answer 6

FRANCESCO REDI

Question 7

Around 1860, ____ ___ of France conducted experiments that marked the end of the spontaneous generation as a scientific possibility

Answer 7

LOUIS PASTEUR

Question 8

The important concept that states that living things can originate only from existing living things is ___ of ____

Answer 8

LAW of BIOGENESIS

Question 9

____ is science put to practical use, that has supplied thousand of inventions that would seem like magic to men of earlier times

Answer 9

TECHNOLOGY