Chapter 15 Review

Which of these was an eighteenth-century intellectual movement?

• Age of Faith
• Enlightenment
• Scientific Revolution
• Age of Reason

Who originally proposed the heliocentric theory?

• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Galileo
• Newton

Which of the following men did NOT do work in the field of chemistry?

• Priestley
• Montesquieu
• Boyle
• Lavoisier

Who discovered the chemical substances of ammonia, oxygen, and carbon dioxide?

• Boyle
• Lavoisier
• Priestley
• Leeuwenhoek

Who devised a way to map the earth on a flat surface?

• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Paracelsus
• Mercator

The belief that reason is the only sure source of knowledge and truth is called _____.

• dualism
• empiricism
• pantheism
• rationalism

What philosopher promoted deductive reasoning?

• Descartes
• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Bacon

Which German astronomer said that the orbits of planets are elliptical?

• Paracelsus
• Kepler
• Copernicus
• Mercator

Which scientist greatly improved the microscope?

• Harvey
• Copernicus
• Leeuwenhoek
• Mercator

Which philosopher stated that the basis of government is the consent of the governed?

• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Locke