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This activity contains 30 questions.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The belief that the Earth is the center of the universe is called .

	Copernicus' main contribution to the Scientific Revolution was   to propose a sun-centered universe, which encouraged others to reject the Ptolemaic system. the use of the telescope to compile accurate astronomical data. the discovery of the planet Saturn. the suggestion that the orbits of planets were elliptical.

	Tycho Brahe actually opposed Copernicus's theory about the solar system.    True  False

	Kepler's theories contradicted Tycho Brahe's observations.    True  False

	Galileo's life story proves that, for scientists, only the results matter; politics, personalities, and presentation have no impact on the progress of science.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Principia Mathematica, the great work of , was published in 1687.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. All the important philosophers discussed in the text, in working to understand the significance of the new science, incorporated some form of the idea of into their thinking.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. was a gifted mathematician who invented analytic geometry.

	The existence of God was an important deduction for Descartes because   God guaranteed the correctness of clear and distinct ideas. without God humans could not think and reason. he could then prove his own existence. proof of God necessarily proved the existence of all else.

	In Thomas Hobbes's view, man is naturally   a person, neither good nor evil. essentially God-fearing. a self-centered beast. None of these.

	John Locke believed that   rulers ought to be absolute in their power. there could be innate ideas based on something other than experience. human knowledge was grounded in the experiences of the senses. All of these.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In his Second Treatise of Government, presented an extended argument for a government that must necessarily be both responsible for and responsive to the concerns of the governed.

	Locke believed that human beings were capable of goodwill and rational behavior.    True  False

	Martin Luther advocated the advancement of learning.    True  False

	Medical faculties were usually receptive to the new science.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Members of the of London, which was founded in 1660, believed they were following in Bacon's footsteps.

	Participation in the activities of scientific societies was strictly limited to social elites.    True  False

	Although women were welcome in European universities, they were excluded from scientific societies.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Queen Christina of hired Descartes to create regulations for a new scientific society.

	Maria Winkelmann helped her husband, Gottfried Kirch, discover a comet in 1702.    True  False

	Women in seventeenth-century Europe were not interested in science.    True  False

	According to the text, the three main areas of potential conflict between science and religion were   contradictions between experimental observation and scriptural description, authority to resolve science/religion disputes, and materialism vs. spirituality. contradictions between experimental observation and scriptural description, the hostility of natural philosophers to the church, and materialism vs. spirituality. funding, popularity, and righteousness. contradictions between experimental observation and scriptural description, authority to resolve science/religion disputes, and patronage.

	Galileo was burned at the stake by the Inquisition.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. made a famous wager with the skeptics: It is a better bet to have faith that god exists and learn that he does not, than to doubt god's existence and learn in the afterlife that he does.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The religious thought associated with deducing religious conclusions from nature became known as .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Between 1400 and 1700, courts sentenced an estimated 70,000–100,000 people to death for harmful magic and diabolical .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. " folk" helped villagers cope with calamities.

	Local fertility cults often developed satanic rituals.    True  False

	While villagers were often at the forefront of witch-hunts, learned society also contributed to the hunts.    True  False

	Elderly women, spinsters, and widows were most often the object of witchcraft accusations because   they were victims of misogyny. they were vulnerable in society. they sometimes laid claim to magical powers. All of these.

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