Historical Perspectives on Science

Credited for creating the Geocentric model

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Socrates

What states that "every object in the universe attracts every other object"?

• Law of Universal Gravitation

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Myself

• Inertia & gravity

How many postulates are there in the theory of relativity?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

According to the book/presentation, Which person below had the biggest influence on Charles Darwin?

• Alfred Wagner

• Albert Einstein

• Issac Newton

• Charles Lyell

who was the person that receives credit for the idea of continental drift.

• Charles Lyell

• Marie Tharp

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wagner

Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Michael Faraday

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Louis Pasteur

Which French nobleman is widely considered the "father of modern chemistry"?

• Blaise Pascal

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Louis Pasteur

Takes two small nuclei and combines them into a larger nucleus

• fission
• fusion

Which two scientist are credited for explaining the diversity of life

• Albert Einstein and Gregor Mendel

• Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin

• Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell

• Albert Einstein and Chales Lyell

Which of the following is NOT a reason on why the industrial revolution happened in Great Britain first?

• British inclination to apply scientific knowledge to practical affairs

• availability of raw materials, especially from the many parts of the British Empire

• the British empire had an overbearing population at the time of the industrial revolution

• the world's greatest merchant fleet, which gave the British access to additional raw materials (such as cotton and wood) and to huge markets for selling textiles