Question 1

Please define the following key terms.
-Maria Winkelmann

Accepted Answer

Maria Winkelmann was a German astronomer

Question 2

Please define the following key terms.
-Margaret Cavendish

Accepted Answer

Margaret Cavendish, also known as the Du

Question 3

Please define the following key terms.
-scientific method

Accepted Answer

The scientific method is a systematic ap

Question 4

Copernicus argued that the sun was in constant motion.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Please define the following key terms.
-Scientific Revolution

Accepted Answer

The Scientific Revolution was a period o

Question 6

Who was Maria Winkelmann?

Accepted Answer

A) An English aristocrat 
B) A German astronomer 
C) A founder of England's Royal Society 
D) The mother of the more famous Robert Boyle 
E) A Dutch brewer 
A) An English aristocrat 
B) A German astronomer 
C) A founder of England's Royal Society 
D) The mother of the more famous Robert Boyle 
E) A Dutch brewer

Question 7

____ was an ancient Greek physician.

Accepted Answer

A) Vesalius 
B) Euclid 
C) Ptolemy 
D) Galen 
E) Aristotle 
A) Vesalius 
B) Euclid 
C) Ptolemy 
D) Galen 
E) Aristotle

Question 8

Please define the following key terms.
-On the Fabric of the Human Body

Accepted Answer

"On the Fabric of the Human Body" is a g

Question 9

Who was the first European to make systematic observations of the heavens by telescope?

Accepted Answer

A) Galileo 
B) Copernicus 
C) Galen 
D) Kepler 
E) Newton 
A) Galileo 
B) Copernicus 
C) Galen 
D) Kepler 
E) Newton

Question 10

Please define the following key terms.
-Blaise Pascal

Accepted Answer

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician

Question 11

Which scientist's work led to the law that states that the volume of a gas varies with the pressure exerted upon it and the idea that matter is composed of atoms, later known as the chemical elements?

Accepted Answer

A) William Harvey 
B) Paracelsus 
C) Andreas Vesalius 
D) Robert Boyle 
E) Antoine Lavoisier 
A) William Harvey 
B) Paracelsus 
C) Andreas Vesalius 
D) Robert Boyle 
E) Antoine Lavoisier

Question 12

What was true of the English Royal Society?

Accepted Answer

A) It was created by royal order in 1603. 
B) It received little government encouragement. 
C) It was under direct government control. 
D) Its members were paid government officials. 
E) It was less important than its Italian counterparts. 
A) It was created by royal order in 1603. 
B) It received little government encouragement. 
C) It was under direct government control. 
D) Its members were paid government officials. 
E) It was less important than its Italian counterparts.

Question 13

Please define the following key terms.
-Francis Bacon's inductive method

Accepted Answer

Francis Bacon's inductive method, also k

Question 14

Please define the following key terms.
-"music of the spheres"

Accepted Answer

The term "music of the spheres" refers t

Question 15

What existed at the center of the heliocentric conception of the universe?

Accepted Answer

A) The heavenly bodies 
B) The sun 
C) The earth 
D) God 
E) Human beings 
A) The heavenly bodies 
B) The sun 
C) The earth 
D) God 
E) Human beings

Question 16

The heliocentric theory

Accepted Answer

A) had little immediate impact. 
B) sparked an immediate and violent debate. 
C) was quickly accepted by the Church. 
D) made Copernicus a wealthy man. 
E) had little long-term impact on astronomy. 
A) had little immediate impact. 
B) sparked an immediate and violent debate. 
C) was quickly accepted by the Church. 
D) made Copernicus a wealthy man. 
E) had little long-term impact on astronomy.

Question 17

Please define the following key terms.
-Galen

Accepted Answer

Galen, also known as Galen of Pergamon,

Question 18

Please define the following key terms.
-Andreas Vesalius

Accepted Answer

Andreas Vesalius was a Belgian anatomist

Question 19

Eighteenth-century anatomical studies generally concluded that

Accepted Answer

A) men were capable of giving birth. 
B) women were not fully human. 
C) men were superior to women. 
D) men and women were biologically indistinguishable. 
E) women were superior to men. 
A) men were capable of giving birth. 
B) women were not fully human. 
C) men were superior to women. 
D) men and women were biologically indistinguishable. 
E) women were superior to men.

Question 20

By what other name is the Ptolemaic conception of the universe?

Accepted Answer

A) God's master plan 
B) The geocentric conception 
C) The lunacentric conception 
D) The expanding universe 
E) The pantheistic theory 
A) God's master plan 
B) The geocentric conception 
C) The lunacentric conception 
D) The expanding universe 
E) The pantheistic theory

Exam 16: Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

Please define the following key terms. -Maria Winkelmann

Please define the following key terms. -Margaret Cavendish

Please define the following key terms. -scientific method

Copernicus argued that the sun was in constant motion.

Please define the following key terms. -Scientific Revolution

Who was Maria Winkelmann?

____ was an ancient Greek physician.

Please define the following key terms. -On the Fabric of the Human Body

Who was the first European to make systematic observations of the heavens by telescope?

Please define the following key terms. -Blaise Pascal

Which scientist's work led to the law that states that the volume of a gas varies with the pressure exerted upon it and the idea that matter is composed of atoms, later known as the chemical elements?

What was true of the English Royal Society?

Please define the following key terms. -Francis Bacon's inductive method

Please define the following key terms. -"music of the spheres"

What existed at the center of the heliocentric conception of the universe?

The heliocentric theory

Please define the following key terms. -Galen

Please define the following key terms. -Andreas Vesalius

Eighteenth-century anatomical studies generally concluded that

By what other name is the Ptolemaic conception of the universe?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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