Scientific Revolution Unit Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hippocrates | Greek rationalist who is known as the father of medicine |
| Aristotle | Greek rationalist who developed logic |
| Plato | Greek rationalist who was Aristotle's teacher |
| Pythagoras | famous mathemetician who had a theorem named for him |
| Ptolemy | astronomer who said the sun and planets revolve around the Earth |
| Muslim scholars | introduced Arabic numerals to Europe and preserved the Greek books on science |
| Jewish and Christian scholars | agreed that there is no conflict between reason and faith |
| Humanists | revived Greek reason and logic to explore new ideas in every field |
| Alchemists | conducted experiments to try to turn other metals into gold |
| Christopher Columbus | expected to land in Asia if he sailed west |
| global exploration | made scientists ignore accepted ideas and begin to question everything |
| Newton | invented calculus and showed that the universe operates by regular laws |
| Kepler | used his math to prove that planets move in elliptical, not circular, orbits |
| Galileo | used his telescope to see that Copernicus was right |
| Brahe | said it is important to carefully and accurately record what you observe |
| Copernicus | said the sun is the center of our solar system |
| Bacon | popularized the new scientific method of observation and experimentation |
| Descartes | discovered laws of optics and is considered the founder of analytic geometry |
| Vesalius | performed dissections of the human body and founded the science of anatomy |
| Harvey | physician who demonstrated that blood circulates through the body |
| Van Leeuwenhoek | perfected the microscope |
| telescope | magnifies things at a distance and was used to prove that everything does NOT revolve around the Earth |
| microscope | magnifies small objects and was used to discover cells and microorganisms |
| thermometer | measures temperature and determined the freezing point and boiling point of water |
| barometer | measures atmospheric pressure and is used to forecast the weather |
| calculus | provides a systematic way for the exact calculation of many areas, volumes, and other quantities, and is the source of today's modern world |
| scientific method | strict rules for conducting experiments |
| natural laws | explain how the world operates, how people behave, and led to the basic ideas of democracy |
| three effects of the Scientific Revolution | people felt they could control their own destiny, there was less superstition, and science became a profession |
| three areas affected by the Scientific Revolution | philosophy, world, and religion |
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