Quiz 3

Carl Linnaeus is best known for

Naming and classifying living organisms

The discipline of natural philosophy focused on

fundamental questions about the nature, purpose, and function of the universe.

How did European governments respond to the new science?

They established academies of science to support and sometimes direct scientific research

The proletarianization of peasants in the eighteenth century forced them to

Become landless rural wage earners

Francis Bacon formalized the research methods of Tycho Brahe and Galileo into a theory of reasoning known as

Empiricism

For Newton, what was the most important, defining force in the universe?

Gravity

Following the discovery of the New World, which country spearheaded the trend in scientific expeditions?

Spain

Which statement correctly characterizes the response of various religious perspectives to Nicolaus Copernicus's hypothesis?

The Catholic Church largely overlooked his theory until declaring the hypothesis false in the seventeenth century, whwn Galileo popularized it

Copernicus's theory of the universe

Postulated a sun-centered view of the universe

Descartes' deductive mathematical reasoning and Bacon's inductive experimentalism combined to help produce...

The modern scientific method