Scientific Revolution

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  1. 2. The Catholic Church famously opposed his conclusions and insisted that _____ stood at the center of the universe.
  2. 5. The move away from _____ farming allowed for specialization and urbanization.
  3. 8. Descartes developed the question of _____.
  4. 12. Many women continued to die in _____.
  5. 14. Christianity in its institutional form had _____ for many phenomena we would today consider the purview of science.
  6. 16. The scientific field of _____, which focuses on the study of light and its behavior.
  7. 17. To every action, there is always opposed an _____ reaction.
  8. 18. Many of the pivotal advances took place in the field of _____.
  9. 20. Inspired by the movement of the planets, a new generation of _____ philosophers emerged.
  10. 24. Every body continues in its state of rest or of motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by _____ impressed on it.
  11. 27. Much of the _____ and inequality in the field can be traced to the scientific revolution.
  12. 29. Boyle hypothesized the structure of atoms and molecules despite lacking a _____.
  13. 30. Church-sanctioned explanations tended to be _____.
  14. 31. The second was an overhaul of the core of scientific thought from one based on abstract philosophy to an _____ centered method.
  15. 32. Aristotle’s classification of matter into water, earth, fire, and air seems downright _____ in light of scientific progress.
  16. 34. The rules of Newtonian physics have since been replaced by more _____ calculations and more complex approaches.
  17. 35. Scientific studies were conducted and communicated chiefly in Latin, therefore _____ individuals without higher classical education.
  18. 36. The investigation of astronomy soon led to advances in _____.
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  1. 1. Using _____ reasoning, Boyle defined compounds according to their properties and carefully documented the results of their interactions.
  2. 3. The first change was the challenge that an increasingly scientific approach presented to the then-dominant _____ dogma.
  3. 4. Before the scientific revolution, science was not an autonomous discipline but rather the outgrowth of _____ philosophy.
  4. 6. Polish astronomer Nicolaus _____ compared what he saw in the heavens with the theories of classical astronomy expounded by Plato and Ptolemy.
  5. 7. A valid scientific discovery should be _____ and falsifiable.
  6. 9. The change of motion is _____ to the motive force impressed and is made in the direction of the straight line in which that force is impressed.
  7. 10. _____ was the most scientific of the fathers of philosophy, and his approach was dominant for close to two millennia.
  8. 11. In the service of the cause of _____ truth, scientists aimed to criticize and test theories and hypotheses.
  9. 13. The term “scientific revolution” refers to two highly significant _____ changes which occurred around the 16th and 17th centuries.
  10. 15. These primary advances within the scientific revolution reached a climax in the work of _____.
  11. 19. Newton showed that white light is the result of specific _____ of colors.
  12. 21. Thereby _____ mortality rates decreased exponentially over the years.
  13. 22. The majority of the population continued to work in _____.
  14. 23. Scientific breakthroughs in _____ and other agricultural technology would increase harvest yields and significantly decrease global hunger.
  15. 25. To Newton, the _____ was a finely tuned machine with predictable and explainable rules of motion.
  16. 26. Meanwhile, most people lived in societies governed by despotic _____ ruling in an arbitrary and self-serving manner.
  17. 28. _____ and medicine were still woefully inadequate.
  18. 33. By its end, humanity had developed a far more _____ and valuable understanding of how the world works.