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

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Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems was chiefly an attempt to do which of the following?

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Newton's contribution to astronomy was to prove which of the following?

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What kinds of women typically participated in scientific endeavors across Europe?

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How did Paracelsus revolutionize the world of medicine in the sixteenth century?

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As per the cosmological views of antiquity and the Middle Ages, which of the following was the center of the universe?

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Who was the scientist whose work led to the law that states that the volume of a gas varies with the pressure exerted upon it and who argued that matter is composed of atoms, later known as the chemical elements?

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Describe the European model of medicine before the 1600s.

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Describe the features of Newton's idea of the "world machine." What are the implications of this worldview?

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Who was Maria Winkelmann?

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Which of the following created three laws of planetary motion that helped disprove the basic structure of the Ptolemaic system?

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How did Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler each contribute to creating the model of the solar system we now believe to be correct?

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