Chapter 9 Test Flashcards
English astronomer for whom a some is named
Hailey
Scientist who wrote The Skeptical Chymist
Boyle
Developed a smallpox vaccine
Jenner
Became the Father of Modern Chemistry
Lavoisier
Studied human anatomy
Vesalius
Discovered Uranus and made a forty-foot-long telescope
Herschel
Observed the earth’s orbit around the sun with a telescope
Galileo
Theorized that the earth revolves around the sun
Copernicus
Studied the boy’s circulatory system
Harvey
Studied calculus and the laws of gravity and motion
Newton
He was a Christian and opposed enemies of Christianity
Robert Boyle
Read the Bible as a historical artifact rather than as a revelation from God
Spinoza
Most promoters of Enlightenment _______________ Christianity
opposed
The English Bill of Rights _________ the American colonies
influenced
King James II _________ the Roman Church
supported
The English Civil War resulted in the establishment of this
Protectorate
His work with brass and iron shows man’s instinct to fulfill the Creation Mandate
Tubalcain
He believed that the body is mostly chemicals and should be treated with chemicals
Paracelsus
A society that is free from religion
secularism
The cabinet system of English government gradually increased ___________ power
Parliament’s
This is the name of the oath with which many modern doctors pledge to help people and “never do harm”
Hippocratic Oath
This was the change in power in seventeenth-century England that occurred without a war
Glorious Revolution
They signed the English Bill or Rights in exchange for the throne of England
William and Mary
This country developed a large economic empire without a monarchy
Dutch Republic
Russia continued the process of developing a strong monarchy under the rule of her
Catherine the Great
Hippocrates was the Father of _________
Medicine
He trusted only human reason as the path to truth
Descartes
Became the rule of England after Cromwell’s death
Charles II
Empiricism taught that people can find knowledge only through ________
experience
This man introduced Muslim documents to medieval universities
Albert the Great
Made significant contributions in the areas of physics, geography, and optics
Bacon
This king was an absolute ruler and set and example for the rest of Europe
Louis XIV
Greek mathematician who became the Father of Geometry
Euclid
Maria Theresa ruled this country
Austria
Early Greek geographer who devised the lines of latitude and longitude found on maps today
Eratosthenes
Led Parliament’s armies during the English Civil War
Cromwell
He argued for empiricism
Locke