Scientific revolution

Question 1

Egyptian mathematician who created the accepted universe model

Answer 1

Claudius Ptolemy

Question 2

Ptolemaic universal model

Answer 2

Geocentric model
Accepted until the 1500s

Question 3

Nicolaus Copernicus

Answer 3

Mathematician
Famous for his planetary model
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

Question 4

Copernican Model

Answer 4

(1543) Heliocentric model
Flawed in circular orbits and placing the sun at the center of the universe

Question 5

Tycho Brahe

Answer 5

Astronomist that lead Kepler to his theories
Died before they could be published

Question 6

Johannes Kepler

Answer 6

German astronomer famous for his three law of planetary motion

Question 7

Three Laws of Planetary Motion

Answer 7

Law of orbits - each planet’s orbit around the sun is an eclipse
Law of areas - a line from the sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas over equal times
Law of periods - the square of the time it takes to orbit the sun is proportional to the cube of the degree of the semi major axis (distance from center to longer end of eclipse)

Question 8

Galileo Galilei

Answer 8

First real telescope
Law of Falling Bodies
Proved Kepler and Copernicus correct
Put on house arrest by the church, recanted his findings, and pardoned in 1992

Question 9

Francis Bacon

Answer 9

English scientist
Scientific method
Inductive reasoning

Question 10

Inductive reasoning

Answer 10

Conclusions are made from a large body of data and observations
(conduct)

Question 11

Deductive reasoning

Answer 11

Conclusions are made from several knowns and many generalizations and inferences
(deduce)

Question 12

Dogmatism

Answer 12

A tendency to strongly believe something is true without listening to others

Question 13

Andreas Vesatius

Answer 13

Father of anatomy
Titian’s studio
Contradicted Galen’s ideas that were based on four humors of blood

Question 14

William Gilbert

Answer 14

Father of magnetism
Published De Magnete
Discovered that earth is a magnet

Question 15

Robert Boyle

Answer 15

Irish chemist
Boyles law of gasses
Used pressure chambers

Question 16

Boyle’s Law

Answer 16

The pressure and volume of a gas have an inverse relationship

Question 17

Christiaan Huygens

Answer 17

Dutch mathematician
Invented pendulum clocks
Improved the telescope and viewed Saturn’s rings and moon Titian

Question 18

Isaac Newton

Answer 18

English scientist and mathematician
Contributed to calculus

Question 19

Newton’s Laws of Motion

Answer 19

Law of Inertia - an object at rest and an object in motion will continue unless acted on by a force
law of Acceleration - f=ma
Law of Interaction - Every action has an equal or opposite reaction

Question 20

René Descartes

Answer 20

French philosopher and scientist
Deductive reasoning
Jesuit and experienced divine intervention
X and Y coordinate plane

Question 21

Cartesian plane

Answer 21

coordinate plane named for René Descartes

Question 22

Antoine Lavoisier

Answer 22

Father of Chemistry
Oxygen theory of combustion
Conservation of mass

Question 23

Leeuwenhoek

Answer 23

Father of microbiology
Perfected the single-lense microscope
First viewed single celled organisms
Debunked myth of spawning cells

Question 24

Ambroise Paré

Answer 24

Surgeon from English kings
Invented several surgical instruments and techniques

Question 25

Scientific method

Answer 25

Question
Research
Hypothesis
Experiment
Analyze data
Draw conclusion
Share findings and data

Question 26

William Harvey

Answer 26

Blood circulates throughout the body

Question 27

“I think, therefore I am”

Answer 27

Quote said by René Descartes
He could not doubt that he existed because he was doing the doubting in the first place