Chapter 16 True/False

William Harvey argued that disease was not caused by an imbalance of the four bodily humors but by chemical imbalances that could be treated by chemical remedies

False

Descartes asserted that he would accept only those things that the Bible said were true

False

Galileo is credited with the invention of calculus

False

Like many of the medieval scholastic philosophers, Blaise Pascal argued that the truths of Christianity could be proved by reason alone

False

Tycho Brahe agreed with Copernicus that the earth does indeed move

False

Because of the scientific successes and accomplishments of such women as Margaret Cavendish, Maria Merian, and Maria Winkelmann, most male scientists agreed, though reluctantly, that females had the same intellectual abilities as males

False

Despite his place in the history of modern science, Isaac Newton remained extremely interested in aspects of the occult world

True

The Scientific Revolution was not a revolution that explosively changed and rapidly overthrew traditional authority, but it's results were truly revolutionary

True

Unlike Francis Bacon, who agreed the humanity's powers were to be used to "conquer nature", Benedict de Spinoza claimed that nature does not exist for human domination because nature and the universe and humanity itself are all part of God

True

Unlike many Protestants, the Catholic Church did not denounce. And condemn the theories of Copernicus until the works of Galileo appeared over seventy-five years later

True