The Scientific Revolution Questions (ch.22/sec.1)
1. Why did most people in 15 th centuries believe the geocentric theory?
2. Why the Church did support the geocentric theory?
3. What does “geocentric” mean?
4. How you will characterize the Scientific Revolution?
5. List circumstances that led to the scientific revolution.
6. What does “helios” mean?
7. And what does “heliocentric” mean?
8. How did Copernicus arrive at the heliocentric theory?
9. What do you know about Johannes Kepler and how did Kepler’s findings support
the heliocentric theory?
10. What role did new technology play in the scientific revolution?
11. What are the 4 steps in the scientific method?
12. List 4 new instruments that came into use during the scientific revolution.
Identify the purpose of each one.
13. How did Rene Descartes’ approach to science differ from Bacon’s?
14. What do you know about Isaac Newton? Why was the law of Gravity important?
15. Did Newton believed in God? What do you know about Newton’s believes?
16. Newton said: “If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
17. Who said “I think, therefore I am!” and Why?
18. What was so revolutionary about the scientific revolution?
19. Who pioneered the use of the scientific method in chemistry?
Who was considered the founder of modern chemistry?
20. Who separated one pure gas from air in 1774?
21. Who was Antoine Lavoisier? What did he discover?
22. Who developed the first mercury barometer? What do we measure with this tool?
23. Who was Gabriel Fahrenheit and what did he invented?
24. Who invented the microscope?
25.Who were the giants to whom Newton was referring?