Exam 2: The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

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Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -How revolutionary was the Scientific Revolution? Which factors supported and which factors impeded the new science?

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As the Scientific Revolution matured,many concluded that

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Question 62

The Ptolemaic model of the universe troubled Copernicus mainly because

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Question 63

The first scientific society in the world for women was established in

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René Descartes believed that

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Who was the first to challenge Galenic medicine in early modern Europe?

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The matter and form theory of nature held that

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Question 67

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -humors

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Question 68

How did Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations undermine the Ptolemaic model of the universe?

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Question 69

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -experimentation

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Question 70

The Englishman who served as lord chancellor to James I and argued that science should improve humanity's material condition was

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Question 71

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Explain the source of medical concepts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.How might new medical ideas threaten the traditional medical practitioner? Discuss whether the reaction of the medical elite of that day holds lessons for the present.

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Question 72

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -What conditions and attitudesprepared Europe for the Scientific Revolution?

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Question 73

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Copernican Revolution

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Question 74

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -The chapter describes the Scientific Revolution as a revolution both in cosmology (vision of the universe)and in methodology.Explain this.What was the old worldview and methodology,and what was the new world view and methodology?

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Question 75

Tycho Brahe built the finest observatory in Europe with the aid of

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Question 76

Paracelsian medicine included all the following EXCEPT

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According to the text

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Question 78

The first observations of the moons around Jupiter were made by

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Question 79

The Scientific Revolution resulted in all the following EXCEPT

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Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -How revolutionary was the Scientific Revolution? Which factors supported and which factors impeded the new science?

As the Scientific Revolution matured,many concluded that

The Ptolemaic model of the universe troubled Copernicus mainly because

The first scientific society in the world for women was established in

René Descartes believed that

Who was the first to challenge Galenic medicine in early modern Europe?

The matter and form theory of nature held that

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -humors

How did Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations undermine the Ptolemaic model of the universe?

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -experimentation

The Englishman who served as lord chancellor to James I and argued that science should improve humanity's material condition was

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -What conditions and attitudesprepared Europe for the Scientific Revolution?

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Copernican Revolution

Tycho Brahe built the finest observatory in Europe with the aid of

Paracelsian medicine included all the following EXCEPT

According to the text

The first observations of the moons around Jupiter were made by

The Scientific Revolution resulted in all the following EXCEPT

The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State

The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform

The French Revolution: the Affirmation of Liberty and Equality

The Industrial Revolution: the Great Transformation

Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848

Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism and Social Criticism

The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism

The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization

Imperialism: Western Global Dominance

Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human Nature, and the Arts

World War I: the West in Despair

An Era of Totalitarianism

Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism

World War Ii: Western Civilization in the Balance

Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989

The Troubled Present

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