HMH Mod 22 Scientific Revolution

What is the foundation of scientific knowledge?

• authority

• education

• logic

• observation

How did a growing interest in alchemy contribute to the Scientific Revolution?

• It encouraged the use of reason.

• It promoted the use of experiments.

• It encouraged attention to the natural world.

• It promoted the rejection of religious authority.

What is one way that relgion promoted knowledge?

• Christian scholars taught Arabic.

• Muslim scholars taught Greek ideas.

• Religious scholars translated Greek ideas.

• Religious scholars wrote about Arabic science.

Copernicus

• said planets orbit the sun

• said planets do not have circular orbits

• charted the position of hundreds of stars

Brahe

• said planets orbit the sun

• said planets do not have circular orbits

• charted the position of hundreds of stars

Kepler

• said planets orbit the sun

• said planets do not have circular orbits

• charted the position of hundreds of stars

What made European thinkers begin to question the ideas of the ancient Greeks?

• the discovery of the Americas

• the correctness of Ptolemy's map

• the discoveries of the Scientific Revolution

• the correctness of Europeans' observations

Who was the first scientist to regularly use experiements to test his theories?

• Brahe

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

How did Newton describe the universe?

• as a collection of objects that attract each other

• as a place where actions have effects

• as a machine that follows four laws

• as a place that is ruled by gravity

How did inventions affect the Scientific Revolution?

• They reduced the time it took to perform experiments.

• They enabled scientists to make more accurate observations.

• They reduced the number of mistakes made during experiments.

• They enabled scientists to communicate their findings to one another.