Scientific Revolution Quiz (Ap Euro)

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This belief emphasizes that human reason can uncover the mysteries and laws of the universe. It was the dominant philosophy during the Scientific Revolution.

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Rationalism

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Many Catholic and Protestant theologians viewed my heliocentric world system as degrading towards mankind.

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Nicholas Copernicus

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I defended Aristotle's theory of the earth being surrounded by numerous clear spheres.

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Ptolmely

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I developed the theory of two types of blood, one type that is bright red and the other that is dark red.

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Galen

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Kepler came up with the laws of planetary motion, in which he states that the planets that orbit the sun follow this path.

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eliptical

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I think therefore I am.

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Descartes

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He rejected Galen's view on human blood in his work On the Fabric of the Human Body.

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Andreas Vesaluis

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Descartes' belief that all existence was divided into the spiritual and material.

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Cartesian Dualism

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This famous mathematician developed the science of probability.

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Blaise Pascal

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One of Newton's greatest accomplishments was proving this theory, in which forces of attraction and repulsion exist between objects.

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universal gravitation

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A philosophy developed by John Locke which states that all knowledge of matters of fact is based on, or derived from, experience.

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empiricism

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The belief that God is a kind of cosmic clockmaker who created a perfect universe in which he does not intervene.

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Deism

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Descartes' way of understanding the universe was summed up in this belief, which states that a conclusion can be deduced by a set of premises, and not from scientific observation

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Deductive Reasoning

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This astronomer theorized that the moon and sun orbited the Earth and the remaining planets orbited the sun.

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Tycho Brahe

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This English philosopher introduced an inductive method of discovering the truths of the universe through observation and experimentation to conclusions and generalizations.

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Sir Francis Bacon

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I solved the question of how blood circulates by theorizing that the heart operates like a mechanical pump.

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William Harvey

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He was able to conclude that the sun rotated by observing the movement of sunspots on its surface.

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Galileo Galilei

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An Italian monk who concluded that the universe was infinite size and that the Earth, sun, and planets were all moving constantly within it.

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Giordano Bruno

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In Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World this philosophy was introduced which states that corresponding causes produce corresponding affects throughout the universe.

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Doctrine of Uniformity

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This philosophy presented by Ptolemy claimed that the earth is the center of the solar system and that the sun and other planets orbit around it.

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geocentrism