Th Scientific Revolution

Question 0

What was alchemy

Answer 0

a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent

Question 1

What role did the Muslims play in the scientific revolution

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They translated the Greek writings into Arabic

Question 2

How did alchemy bring out the scientific revolution

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The alchemist succeeded in using experiments learn more about how Nature worked

Question 3

What would scientists do if a repeated experiments showed that a theory was incorrect

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They would make up new theories

Question 4

Describe the method of gaining scientific knowledge. What are three key terms to describe this process?

Answer 4

The seven processes are:

1. State the problem
2. Collect information
3. Form a hypothesis
4. Test the hypothesis
5. Record and analyze data
6. State a conclusion
7. Repeat steps 1-6

Question 5

How did religious scholars Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas help preserve Greek ideas

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By studying them and trying to combine them with their religious ideas

Question 6

List the three roots of scientific revolution

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Logic
Observation
Rationalism

Question 7

What was Copernicus’s main argument

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he studied that the planets revolved around the sun and the sun is the center of the universe

Question 8

What event first cause the Renaissance scholars to doubt ancient Greeks thoughts

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When Columbus discovered America, he went around the world and he thought Asia was it the other side of where he landed but it actually was America

Question 9

Explain how the exploration contributed to the scientific revolution

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The explanation contributed to the scientific revolution because when they went on voyages observation in the real world disproved the teachings of ancient authority

Question 10

People viewed Copernicus ideas as – – – – – – –. why?

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People viewed Copernicus ideas as true because they could proved by the performances of his experiments

Question 11

Why is careful and detailed record of information important in science?

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It’s other scientists wanted to just see if these experiments were true they needed to record things they did in the experiment

Question 12

How did Galileo’s ideas make people feel

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His discoveries made people feel unhappy because they were new ideas

Question 13

Explain how newtons laws were important to modern science

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Because he helped make more sense in the world and helped modern scientist today figure new things because of his discoveries back then

Question 14

List these three instruments in the order they were invented the telescope, microscope, thermometer

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A. Microscope
B. Thermometer
C. Telescope

Question 15

The sun is the center of the ——–, the ——- —– the sun, and planets move in an ———- ——

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Universe, planets orbit, elliptical orbits

Question 16

During the Renaissance, why did European scholars believe in the ideas of Greek rationalists?

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It is always what they had believed and nobody questioned it

Question 17

What did the church officials try to get Galileo to admit

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The earth was the center of the universe and that Earth did not move l, he had to say it or else he was going to be tortured

Question 18

What happens first in the scientific method

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Stating the problem the question must start with a “why”

Question 19

Why did the church and science come into conflict?

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The science was putting ideas that were against the church beliefs and when the people were contradicting these ideas the church became weaker and the church officials were afraid that people would start questioning the church ideas

Question 20

How did science influence ideas about government?

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People would start to use reasoning

Question 21

What effect did the scientific revolution have on peoples ideas about society?

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People started to look at the world a completely different way

Question 22

What is the scientific method

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A step by step method for performing experiments and other scientific research

Question 23

After the scientific revolution, how did people learn about the natural world

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Going to school and universities

Question 24

Why did Francis Bacon request money for scientific research friend the king of England

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Bacon said that science should be preserved in a systematic fashion

Question 25

Descartes argued that knowledge begins with what?

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It always begins with doubt

Question 26

Who was René Descartes

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A French scientist mathematician and philosopher he emphasized human reasoning best road to understanding

Question 27

Who was Robert Boyle

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Heated chemistry and he distinguished between individual elements and chemical compounds
He made the first air pump

Question 28

Who was Andreas Vesalius

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Father of human anatomy he wrote the first book on human anatomy actually

Question 29

Who was William Harvey

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Described the circulation of blood he figured out that the heart was like a pump and he figured out that the pump of the heartbeat goes through veins

Question 30

Who was Ambroise pare

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A French physician he created ointment to prevent infection in a wound

Question 31

Who was Antonvon Leewenhoek

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He perfected the microscope and the first human to see cells and micoorganisms

Question 32

Stating the problem is the first step of what

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The scientific method

Question 33

What did Galileo use to make his discoveries

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Telescope

Question 34

Ptolemy had written what

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The earth was the center of the universe and the sun and all the planets circled around earth Copernicus and many people had believed this to be true for thousands of years

Question 35

Who was Tycho Brahe

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A Danish astronomer that when doing experiments made careful details so it would make sense

Question 36

Who was John Kepler

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A man who figured out that the planets move in an elliptical orbit and that the planets closer to the sun orbit faster

Question 37

Who was issac Newton

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The man who made the laws of gravity and the laws of motion

Question 38

For every action there is an equal and ——– action

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Opposite

Question 39

An instrument that measures air pressure

Answer 39

What is a barometer

Question 40

Is a solution that a scientist proposes to solve the problem

Answer 40

What is a hypothesis