Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Flashcard

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What was the Ptolemaic System?

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A geocentric model with planets revolving in concentric circles

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Who first proposed the heliocentric model of the universe?

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Nicholas Copernicus

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What did Johannes Kepler contribute to the model of the universe?

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Confirmed elliptical orbits of planets

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What was Galileo's significant contribution to astronomy?

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Built the first telescope and confirmed Kepler's model

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What is the Universal Law of Gravitation?

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The discovery that all things are attracted to each other

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Who was Andreas Vesalius?

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A professor of surgery who studied the human body

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What does Boyle's Law state?

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The volume of a gas changes with the pressure exerted on it

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What is rationalism?

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The belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge

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Who created the scientific method?

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Francis Bacon

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What does "tabula rasa" mean?

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A blank slate