AP EURO ch 16
This excerpt would be most useful to historians as a source of information about which of the following?
the impact of the universality of gravity on future scientific study
At the time of his death Pascal was attempting to
prove that a scientist can be a practicing Christian and vice versa
Based on the dialogue above, it can be inferred that Galileo
questioned the authority of the ancients
In regards to commonly held ideas about women, the Scientific Revolution
reaffirmed traditional notions
Isaac Newton's law of gravity
showed that one mathematical law applied throughout the universe
Newton's study of the idea of the universality of gravity was most influenced by which of the following scientific disciplines or ideas?
Heliocentric studies
Which of the following represents a later example of the impact of Newton and the other scientists of his era?
An increased emphasis on reason in European culture
All of the following were important precursors to the Scientific Revolution except?
Enlightenment philosophers
Bacon argued that scientists should work from the general to the particular
False
The Catholic Church was a strong supporter of Galileo and other scientists
False
Vesalius's work proved that a number of accepted ideas about the human body were wrong. Who had been the accepted authority on the human body until Vesalius reserved his ideas?
Galen
Galileo's ideas about a heliocentric view of the universe would have been most influenced by which of the following scientist and thinkers?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Which of the following statements is not true?
The Scientific Revolution affirmed the Ptolemaic worldview
The ideas of Andreas Vesalius based on the above image would have been most challenged by which of the following?
The ideas of inductive and deductive reasoning, which were part of the "scientific method"
Which of the following was also a result of this new era in science?
The questioning of religious authority
Copernicus was the first astronomer to offer heliocentric conception of the universe
True
Descartes places a strong importance on doubt
True
The Scientific Revolution allowed some women from the elite classes to participate in scientific work
True
The image most directly reflects
anatomical and medical discoveries of the time period
The dialogue above shows that scientists of the era increasingly
combined new ideas of the universe with folk traditions that already existed
Kepler's three laws of planetary motion
convinced him that his belief in the "music of the spheres" was right
The significance of Descartes' theories was that they
created a division between the scientist and the material world
Spinoza differed with all other philosophers of his day about the
divinity of the material universe
The long range significance of the Royal Society and Royal Academy was to
encourage scientists to work cooperatively
The learned societies made an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution by
helping scientists communicate with each other and the public
Francis Bacon's major contribution to early modern science lay in
his creation of a working scientific method, based on induction
The main difference between early British and German women scientists was that
in Britain they were usually women of leisure, in Germany craftswomen
Vesalias was an important scholar in the Scientific Revolution because he
made key advances in the area of anatomy
Galileo responded to the Inquisition's first condemnation of his theories by
writing a satirical dialogue that landed him in deeper trouble
Copernicus concluded that Ptolemy's view of the universe was
wrong because it did not match his mathematical calculations
