Exam 16: The New Science of the Seventeenth Century

The bulk of the philosophy of René Descartes may be summed up by which statement?

Which English natural philosopher discovered the cellular structure of plants?

Copernicus's work on the problem of the Ptolemaic system was commissioned by:

The dispersal of ancient texts by the humanists of the late Renaissance that served to encourage study and debate was facilitated by:

The "Ptolemaic system" was the first system to question whether planets moved in a circular path around a stationary earth.

_________ made the first challenge to the Ptolemaic conception of the universe.

In 1616,Galileo Galilei was warned to stop promulgating Copernican ideas,when the Catholic Church:

Galileo Galilei was brought to trial by the Inquisition because he:

All of the following contributed greatly to the development of astronomy during the Scientific Revolution EXCEPT:

In what ways did Bacon and his followers aid the separation of scientific investigation from philosophical argument?

Baruch Spinoza applied geometry to ethics and deduced that the universe was made of a single substance that was both God and nature in one.

The deductive method of inquiry was formulated by:

Galileo hoped for support from his friend Maffeo Barberini who became:

Tycho Brahe's greatest contribution to astronomy was his building of the first observatory on a small island granted to him by the Danish king.

While many men and women wrote during the seventeenth century concerning the ability of women to fully participate in the scientific realm,none wrote quite so passionately as _________,who wrote of the "'tyrannical government' of men over women."

One of the leading German astronomers of the seventeenth century was:

"Simplicio" (Simpleton)was a character in Galileo's Dialogue who represented the new science.

Galileo concluded that the Copernican hypothesis was correct after observing:

_________ was the "new scientist" whose work laid the foundation for Sir Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.

Newton realized his work was groundbreaking,but he proved to be an egotistical recluse who did not credit his predecessors' work in laying a foundation for his own,bringing upon himself the censure of his peers.