Scientific Revolution Web Assignment
MUST BE DONE IN INK OR PENCIL!!
Please access the powerpoint presentation on your “S” drive in the Flick History 631 folder--> “scientificrevolution1.pptx” and answer the following questions:
1. Find the definitions on slide #2
2. What was the Middle Ages view of the universe?
3. What did philosophers of the day question?
4. The Scientific Revolution “gradually” did what “2” things?
5. How old was Copernicus when he died? List 3 of his beliefs.
6. Where was the earth in relation to the other planets in the Aristotelian view of the universe?
7. Who was Kepler and what did he say about the movement of planets?
8. What did Galileo use to make most of his discoveries? What 2 laws did he help establish?
9. Why did Galileo have to make a public apology? Summarize (in your own words) his apology.
10. What experiment did Galileo do to prove his theory that “a falling body accelerates uniformly..”.
11. Who was Francis Bacon? List two of his major accomplishments.
12. Copy the diagram on slide # 14 OR #15 to illustrate the Scientific Method.
13. What two “titles” did Descartes hold? List one of his accomplishments.
14. What is the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning?
15. List two of Newton’s greatest accomplishments. Why do you think it surprising to some that he was so successful?
16. According to Newton’s Law of Inertia, what happens to a marble rolling on a perfectly flat surface?
17. Who was Galen? What did he practice on while trying to make discoveries?
18. Where did Vesulius find his bodies that he practiced on?
19. List one accomplishment of William Harvey.
20. What 2 things was Robert Hooke famous for?
21. Why was Robert Boyle called the “Father of Modern Chemistry”?
22. What discovery is Priestly best known for?
