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