Exam 17: The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Compare and contrast the approaches to the nature of God of at least three leading figures of the Scientific Revolution.

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Who used the mechanistic view of the world to state that the heart was a mechanical pump?

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How did the Scientific Revolution contribute to the birth of the modern world?

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? universal gravitation

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How did the new scientific approach to nature raise some concerns among the Roman Catholic hierarchy? How would you typify their response?

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? humors

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Opticks is a work in which

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

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Galenic traditions of medicine included

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Explain the important connections between mysticism and magic on the one hand and the Scientific Revolution on the other.

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What relationship existed between alchemy and science during the Scientific Revolution? What traits did they share, and where did their methods and goals diverge?

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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How revolutionary was the Scientific Revolution? Which factors supported and which factors impeded the new science?

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Paracelsian medicine included all the following EXCEPT

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Neo-Platonists

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Copernicus' s model of the universe as expounded in On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

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The text identifies which  famous thinker as seeing no contradiction in searching for mathematical laws of nature while practicing alchemy?

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

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The medieval understanding of the universe

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Galileo believed

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Achievements of Kepler include proving all of the following EXCEPT

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