Scientific Revolution

_______________believed others should observe the world and draw their own logical conclusions

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

• Galen

• Pythagirous

The first microscopes invented were called _________________ because they were used to study insects.

• bug viewers

• insects inspectors

• flea glasses

• fly spotters

Galileo Galilei is often credited as the inventor of the ______________________ , but his instrument indicated temperature differences rather than measured them.

• barometer

• microscope

• thermometer

• telescope

__________________'s publication Novum Organum in 1620 emphasized proper scientific method – theories must be supported with proof, observation, and experimentation

• Sir Frances Bacon

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Renee Descartes

• Galileo Galilee

Sir Isaac Newton discovered that color is an outcome of objects _________________________.

• overlapping

• reflecting light

• refracting light

• mirroring

What would be the opposite of rationalism?

• Empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

• Emphasis - special importance, value, or prominence given to something

• Empiricism – The belief that the senses are the best way to know something is true.

• Emergence - the process of coming into being, or of becoming important or prominent.

Who developed the geocentric theory?

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Newton

• Aristotle

How long was the Geocentric theory accepted as the truth?

• Forever, it is still accepted today

• Until the later 1500's

• It was never accepted as the truth

• Until 340 BC

______________ was an Italian scientist and mathematician.

He made improvements to the telescope.

• Nicolaus Copericus

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Tycho Brahe

• Galileo Galilei

He designed laws of motion and gravity

• Isaac Newton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Sir Frances Bacon

• Rene Decartes