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Quiz 17: The Scientific Revolution the Universe Seen As a Mechanism
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Question 61
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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? experimentation
Question 62
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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? humors
Question 63
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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Comment upon the medieval perception of matter and explain its relationship to new scientific studies of the seventeenth century.
Question 64
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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What conditions and attitudes prepared Europe for the Scientific Revolution?
Question 65
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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? spinozism
Question 66
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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?
Question 67
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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? corpuscles
Question 68
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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. 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?
Question 69
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Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? inductive methodology
Question 70
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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. The chapter describes the Scientific Revolution as a revolution both in cosmology (vision of the universe)and in methodology. Explain this. What was the old worldview and methodology, and what was the new world view and methodology?
Question 71
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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?
Question 72
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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?
Question 73
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Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Explain the source of medical concepts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. How might new medical ideas threaten the traditional medical practitioner? Discuss whether the reaction of the medical elite of that day holds lessons for the present.
Question 74
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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.