The following quiz is presented for free use by students and teachers and was created by myself in my years teaching high school. Disregard the numbers at the side. They have no bearing on the questions. Chapter 17 Section 1 Study Guide
1.How did scientists of the Middle Ages generally obtain their knowledge? (p.511)
2.Which Greek authority of the past was especially important to them? (p. 511)
3.The discoveries of the works of what newly found Greek scientists allowed the enlightenment to occur? (512)
4.What inventions helped bring about the enlightenment? (512)
5.Which intellectuals thought that mathmatics were the answer to the questions of the Universe? (512)
6.Who was Ptoemy? (512)
7.What is the Ptolemaic System? (513)
8.What does geocentric mean? (513)
9.Describe the solar system as proposed by Ptolemy? (513)
10.What is the Prime Mover? (513)
11.How did this system help humans define their relationship to God? (513)
12.Who was Nicholas Copernicus? (513)
13.What does heliocentric mean? (513)
14.Describe the Universe as proposed by Copernicus? (513)
15.Who was Johannes Kepler? (513)
16.What was the law of planetary motion? (513)
17.What was different about the orbits of planets according to Kepler then had previously been believed? (513)
18.What is Kepler’s First Law? (514)
19.Who was Galileo Galilei? (514)
20.How did he make the majority of his discoveries? (514)
21.What discoveries did he make about the solar system? (514)
22.Why did Galileo’s observations hurt the theory of planetary bodies being orbs of light? (514)
23.How did the Church view the findings of Galileo? (514)
24.What was the outcome of his run in with the Church? (514)
25.What does legend say Galileo mumbled as he left the inquisition? (514)
26.Who was Isaac Newton? (514)
27.What is his first book referred to as? (514)
28.What is the Universal Law of Gravitation? (514)
29.Who had been the authority on the human body during Midieval times? (515)
30.What was his view of the body in relation to the blood? (515)
31.Who was Andreas Vesalius? (515)
32.Who was William Harvey? (515)
33.What new observations did he make about the blood? (515)
34.Where did he believe the circulatory system began? (515)
35.What was Robert Boyle famous for? (515)
36.Who was Margeret Cavendish? (515)
37.What did Maria Winkelmann discover? (516)
38.Why was she not allowed to be an astronomer after the death of her husband? (516)
39.What is rationalism? Who invented it? (517)
40.What is the scientific method? Who invented it? (517)
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