Lesson 5: The Scientific Revolution

Question 1

The Greeks called Science

Answer 1

“Scientia”

Question 2

Scientia means

Answer 2

Knowledge

Question 3

Propagated the Geocentric Theory

Answer 3

Claudius Ptolemy

Question 4

Propagated the Heliocentric Theory

Answer 4

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 5

Improved the telescope for
astronomy

Answer 5

Galileo Galilei

Question 6

Catalog more than 1,000 stars, Comet is a representation of change in space

Answer 6

Tycho Brahe

Question 7

Proposed that the orbits of the planets were regular ellipses, not irregular circles.

Answer 7

Johannes Kepler

Question 8

Proposed the Three Laws of
Motion

Answer 8

Isaac Newton

Question 9

“The Body Snatcher”

Answer 9

Andreas Vesalius

Question 10

Discovered the world of
single-celled organisms
through a microscope

Answer 10

Anton Van
Leeuenhoek

Question 11

Supported Democracy

Answer 11

John Locke

Question 12

Supported the Monarchy

Answer 12

Thomas Hobbes

Question 13

Emphasized the checks and balance of the Three Branches of the Government

Answer 13

Baron de Montesquieu

Question 14

Coined “I think, Therefore, I ‘am”

Answer 14

Rene Descartes

Question 15

Propagated “Pantheism”, All is God and God is All

Answer 15

Baruch Spinoza

Question 16

Wrote “Candide” and Criticized the inadequacy of optimistic
thinking

Answer 16

Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Question 17

“God is the necessary being” which
constitutes the sufficient explanation of the universe

Answer 17

Wilhelm Von Leibnitz

Question 18

Believed man learns more through
experience

Answer 18

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 19

Published “Tableau économique” and Believed that the wealth of a nation is based from the value of “land agriculture”

Answer 19

Francois Quesnay

Question 20

Believed in the let alone
policy or the “Laissez Faire”

Answer 20

Adam Smith

Question 21

Father of Modern Anthropology

Answer 21

Franz Boas

Question 22

Father of Sociology

Answer 22

Auguste Comte