Chapter 17 Week 1 HIEU 202
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) - ANS-was believed to be an atheist by his contemporaries.
Francis Bacon believed that science should be studied - ANS-to improve the human condition
Galileo's observations of the heavens by telescope - ANS-Helped break down distinctions that
had been made between the nature of the heavens and that of the earth.
In his Opticks, Newton argued that - ANS-light was corpuscular in nature
In the 1600s, science posed a challenge to - ANS-the traditional authority of clergy, in both
catholic and Protestant churches
Medieval thinkers - ANS-integrated Aristotle and Ptolemy into a Christian framework
Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation - ANS-proved that the force that keeps
planets in their orbits is the same as the force that causes objects to fall
Paracelsus (1493-1541) - ANS-attracted few followers outside of his native Switzerland
Platonic philosophy inspired Renaissance thinkers to - ANS-see the search for truth about
nature as another aspect of the search for knowledge about God
René Descartes (1596-1650) - ANS-made a sharp distinction between matter and spirit.
Robert Boyle (1627-169 - ANS-feared the tendencies of the populace to disorder and rebellion.
The Galenic theory of medicine - ANS-resulted in such practices as bloodletting and sweating
The mechanical philosophy central to the Scientific Revolution denied the existence of -
ANS-forms
The new approach to nature that followed from the Renaissance revival of ancient learning
combined all of the following EXCEPT - ANS-the doctrine of forms.
The rise of the scientific worldview was generally - ANS-accepted by promoters of industry, who
saw it as a way of enhancing their power and prosperity
The Scientific Revolution resulted in all of the following EXCEPT the - ANS-widening of the gap
between elite and popular culture.
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