Question 1

The Liga may correctly be associated with

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A)  a group of priests and academics who opposed Galileo. 
B)  scientists who attempted to communicate with each other on new discoveries. 
C)  a papal conference called to dispute the new science. 
D)  a group of priests and academics who opposed Galileo and a papal conference called to dispute the new science. 
E)  the cooperation among Protestants, Jews, and Muslims directed against the papacy.

Question 2

Which of the following statements concerning the work of Newton is NOT true?

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A)  Newton published his discoveries immediately after their formulation. 
B)  Newton published under the sponsorship of the Royal Society. 
C)  Newtonwas persuaded to publish by Edmund Halley. 
D)  Newton'sfindings transformed the sciences of physics and optics. 
E)  ThePrincipia Mathematica made the greater impact on Newton's contemporaries than his Opticks.

Question 3

The medieval understanding of the universe

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A)  was based solely on Judeo-Christian thought. 
B)  combined Greek philosophy and Christian thought. 
C)  was based solely on Greek thought. 
D)  subordinated faith to observation. 
E)  was hierarchical and mechanistic.

Question 4

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

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Question 5

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

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Question 6

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
 
-Locate and label the stateswhere the following individuals worked: Bacon,Brahe,Copernicus,Descartes,Galileo,Kepler,Newton,Paracelsus,Spinoza,and Vesalius.

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Question 7

Which of the following contributed LEASTto the dissemination of the new scientific worldview in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

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A)  academies founded by monarchs or other elites 
B)  handbooks and lectures 
C)  universities 
D)  publications in the vernacular 
E)  enthusiasm among much of the educated elite

Question 8

Who argued that observation and anatomical dissection were the keys to knowing how the body works?

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A)  Galen 
B)  Paracelsus 
C)  Bacon 
D)  Vesalius 
E)  Hippocrates

Question 9

According to the text,in his synthesis,the law of universal gravitation brought together

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A)  the experimental successes of the new science, its mathematical sophistication, and its philosophical revolution. 
B)  the ideas of Aristotle, Copernicus, and Galileo. 
C)  the science of Kepler, Galileo, and Ptolemy. 
D)  Descartes, Christian Neo-Platonism, Newton'smathematical genius, and Kepler. 
E)  Christian Neo-Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Copernicus.

Question 10

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
 
-How did the Scientific Revolution contribute to the birth of the modern world?

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Question 11

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
 
-For students who took the first half of Western Civilization: explain the connections between ancient Greco-Roman culture and the Scientific Revolution.

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Question 12

The philosophical efforts of which of the following adapted Aristotle's thought to Christian beliefs?

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A)  Augustine 
B)  Pope Gregory I 
C)  Thomas Aquinas 
D)  Pico 
E)  Erasmus

Question 13

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

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Question 14

Italian Neo-Platonist philosophers believed that

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A)  the search for order in nature was part of the search for knowledge about God. 
B)  experimental investigation had to be divorced from theological speculation. 
C)  study of the humanities was much more important than the study of nature. 
D)  the search for knowledge about God began with experimental observation. 
E)  a sharp break with antiquity was necessary.

Question 15

Which of the following statements best describes the Scientific Revolution?

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A)  The new science grew gradually from the challenge posed by Copernicus. 
B)  Copernicus largely completed the Scientific Revolution himself. 
C)  Copernicus's ideas were ignored for about a century, after which the Scientific Revolution took off. 
D)  The Scientific Revolution became a battle between those who had a new, perfectly accurate, view of the universe and those who refused to entertain change. 
E)  The Scientific Revolution spread slowly and only in Protestant countries.

Question 16

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
 
-Central to the practice of modern science is the experimental method of investigation and testing scientific theories.Who were some of the pioneers of experimental method in the Scientific Revolution,and what were their achievements?

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Question 17

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

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Question 18

Copernicus initiated studies that led to his revolutionary theories because

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A)  there was a need to reform the Christian calendar. 
B)  his father superior instructed him to do so. 
C)  he wanted to refute some Protestant theories. 
D)  a colleague had challenged him when he was teaching at the University of Paris. 
E)  spiritual crises had plagued him all his life, as they have most men of genius

Question 19

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

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Question 20

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

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A)  discarded the idea of crystalline spheres in which heavenly objects were embedded. 
B)  included elliptical orbits for the planets. 
C)  discarded all of the Ptolemaic epicycles. 
D)  included the perfectly circular orbits of the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system. 
E)  discarded Aristotle's theory of motion.

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

The Liga may correctly be associated with

Which of the following statements concerning the work of Newton is NOT true?

The medieval understanding of the universe

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

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

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Locate and label the stateswhere the following individuals worked: Bacon,Brahe,Copernicus,Descartes,Galileo,Kepler,Newton,Paracelsus,Spinoza,and Vesalius.

Which of the following contributed LEASTto the dissemination of the new scientific worldview in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

Who argued that observation and anatomical dissection were the keys to knowing how the body works?

According to the text,in his synthesis,the law of universal gravitation brought together

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -How did the Scientific Revolution contribute to the birth of the modern world?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -For students who took the first half of Western Civilization: explain the connections between ancient Greco-Roman culture and the Scientific Revolution.

The philosophical efforts of which of the following adapted Aristotle's thought to Christian beliefs?

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

Italian Neo-Platonist philosophers believed that

Which of the following statements best describes the Scientific Revolution?

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

Copernicus initiated studies that led to his revolutionary theories because

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

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