Midterm- Scientific Revolution

Question 1

Scientific Revolution

Answer 1

Start of modern science. Developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, the human anatomy, and chemistry changed views of society and nature

Question 2

Copernicus

Answer 2

Renaissance Mathematician and astronomer who formulated a theory that placed the sun, rather than the earth, at the center of the universe

Question 3

Galileo Galilei

Answer 3

Galileo Galilei, often known mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance.

Question 4

Heliocentric

Answer 4

Theory that the sun was in the center of the universe

Question 5

Geocentric

Answer 5

Theory that the earth was in the center of the universe