
According to the scientific method, the best way to understand the physical world is to
Rationalism is the belief that
Why did women have to publish their scientific work anonymously?
Vesalius and Harvey contributed to the understanding of human anatomy by
The universal law of gravitation was proposed b
Why did the Catholic Church attack Galileo?
How did the telescope contribute to Galileo's theories?
What did Kepler prove?
Ptolemy believed that the universe was geocentric, or
The new scientific method of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries relied on
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Copernicus argued that the planets revolved around the ____________________.
____________________ was a mathematician who showed that the orbits of the planets were elliptical.
Newton’s universal law of gravitation was important because it could explain all the ____________________ in the universe.
Copernicus’s, Kepler’s, and Galileo’s theories were important because they all contributed to proving that the universe was centered around the ____________________.
How did new technology such as the telescope and new theories such as Pascal’s Law lay the foundation of the Scientific Revolution?
Which of the following made it possible for scientists to practice direct observation?
Many intellectuals of the 1500s and 1600s did not take Margaret Cavendish’s work seriously because
Why did Descartes decide to set aside everything he had learned and begin again?
Francis Bacon believed that scientists should