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19.1 World History Test

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  1. William Harvey
  2. Galen
  3. Boyle's Law
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. Galileo
  1. a ancient Greek physician assumed human anatomy was similar to animals bc he'd never dissected a human body
  2. b describes how temperature, volume, and pressure affect gas (written by Robert Boyle)
  3. c Vesalius laid groundwork (of human body) for this English dr to observe and explain how the human body worked, This dr later explained how blood and the circulatory system worked
  4. d helped develop scientific method
  5. e Built 1st telescope and discovered: Saturn, craters on the moon, sunspots, Jupiter's moons, milky way is made up of stars; published discoveries in "Starry Messenger"

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Danish astronomer, studied planets in their orbits, wrote book impressing King Frederick II who gave him $$$ for 2 observatories; believed sun revolved around the earth but 5 other planets revolved around the sun
  2. Philosopher who was first to propose geocentric theory
  3. theory that the sun is the center of the universe and the earth and other planets rotate around the sun (true theory)
  4. "father of modern chemistry", 1st chemist to define an element. his first work was "The Skeptical Chemist" which described matter as a cluster of tiny particles (now known as atoms/molecules).
  5. [English physicist and inventor] who used an early microscope to observe and explain planets at a microscopic level. 1st to create/use the term "cell"

5 True/False Questions

  1. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisierinvented first microscope. 1st to describe appearance of bacteria, red blood cells, yeast, and other microorganisms.

          

  2. René DescartesFlemish dr became known for his work @ the Univ. of Padua in Italy. in 1539 a judge let him dissect the bodies of executed criminals.

          

  3. Johannes KeplerBrahe's assistant, published the results of Brahe's measurements of Mars' orbit, used measurements to solve the main problem of the Copernician theory, PROVED heliocentric theory

          

  4. Andreas VesaliusFlemish dr became known for his work @ the Univ. of Padua in Italy. in 1539 a judge let him dissect the bodies of executed criminals.

          

  5. geocentric theoryTheory that the earth was the center of the universe and that the Sun, moon, and other planets revolved around the earth