Science Flashcard

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Who discovered four moons of Jupiter and that they orbited around Jupiter?

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Galileo

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Who is the scientist who explained planets revolve around the sun and in ellipses?

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Kepler

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Galen’s ancient works were incorrect in many aspects of...

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human anatomy

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Who is the scientist who discovered the law of gravity?

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Newton

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What is the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?

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gravity

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What new way of thinking about the physical world led to modern science?

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scientific revolution

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Which one of these means to give up one’s views? recant, Kepler, Newton, Bacon

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recant

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What is the belief that the sun is at the center of the universe?

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heliocentric

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Until the Scientific Revolution, the traditional authorities were...

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the Catholic Church & classical scholars

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Who was one of the fathers of modern philosophy who deducted one unshakable truth, “I think, therefore I am?”

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Rene Descartes