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