Scientific Revolution

Question 1

What is understanding of the world based on?

Answer 1

Observation and mathematical reasoning

Question 2

Adam Smith

Question 3

Claudius Ptolemy

Answer 3

His work is the foundation for Astronomers

Question 4

What did Ptolemy wrote?

Answer 4

Almagest

Question 5

Almagest

Answer 5

Synthesis theories about the universe

Question 6

Ptolemaic

Answer 6

Belief of Ptolemy - Earth is at the center of the universe

Question 7

Planetes

Answer 7

Wanderer

Question 8

Epicycle

Answer 8

Series of adjustments - small circular revolutions

Question 9

Nicolaus Copernicus

Answer 9

Challenged Ptolemaic’s theory and broke it; Argued that the sun is at the center of the universe

Question 10

What did Nicolaus Copernicus wrote?

Answer 10

“On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”

Question 11

Galileo Galilei

Answer 11

Invented the telescope; Contributed to the understanding of terrestrial motion

Question 12

Johannes Kepler

Answer 12

German; Demonstrated that planets orbits elliptical, not circularly

Question 13

Isaac Newton

Answer 13

English mathematician; Newton’s Laws

Question 14

What book did Newton write?

Answer 14

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Question 15

Emilie du Châtelet

Answer 15

Translated Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” into French