Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution changed the way people

• printed books
• produced goods
• thought about nature
• organized governments

What sources did scholars in the Middle Ages get their ideas from?

• the teachings of Aristotle
• the teachings of Aristotle & the Bible
• the teachings of Galileo & the Bible
• the Bible

Greek rationalism argued that

• personal observation was the only truth
• the word of the Bible was final
• clever debaters could argue any point
• logic could reveal basic truths

Explorers encourage the growth of science by

• creating a need to study the stars
• writing exaggerated accounts of their travels
• arguing against the power of the RCC
• showing that accepted beliefs could be wrong

Kepler added support to Copernicus's theory by

• publishing the theory in a book that many people read
• writing mathematical laws that described how planets move
• inventing a device for seeing the night sky more accurately
• showing that using the theory would improve safety at sea.

Which form of technology allowed Galileo to make new discoveries?

• the telescope
• the barometer
• the microscope
• the astrolabe

The RCC objected to Galileo's work because the Church taught that

• non-religious teachings must be neglected without discussion
• nobody except priests should study the heavens
• Earth was the center of the universe
• moons had been created for other planets as well as Earth

How did an apple falling from a tree give Newton an idea?

• It knocked some sense into him
• It drew his attention to gravity
• It made him wonder how living things grow
• It suggested that events occur in cycles

In Newton's formula, mass is a measure of the

• amount of matter in an object
• food a plant or animal must take in
• speed at which an object travels
• shape of a planet's path around the sun

Newton's book Principia described three laws of

• logic
• arithematic
• mapmaking
• motion