Word History B Topic 5 (Scientific Revolution)

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Newton’s *Principia Mathematica* established what?

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laws of motion and universal gravitation

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How did the works of Francis Bacon and René Descartes differ?

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Descartes distinguished between the knowledge that could be attained by reason alone, while Bacon demanded a planned procedure of investigating things.

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What did the heliocentric model propose?

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that the Earth orbits around the sun

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Which of the following ARE characteristics of the scientific method?
assumptions and experimentation,
assumptions and observation,
artificial circumstances and experimentation,
experimentation and observation

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experimentation and observation

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Which of these is an astronomical observation that Galileo made? Options: The Earth is another planet that revolves around the fixed Sun once a year and turns on its axis once a day. The surface of the moon is smooth, even, and perfect in appearance. Venus has a full set of phases, similar to the phases of the moon, that we can observe from Earth. All planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus.

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Venus has a full set of phases, similar to the phases of the moon, that we can observe from Earth.

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How did the Scientific Revolution change what intellectuals focused on?

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It put more emphasis on what they observed.