The Scientific Revolution
Description: The Scientific Revolution was a period of major intellectual and scientific change in Europe that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries. It marked the transition from the medieval to the modern world. | |
Number of Questions: 15 | |
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Who is considered the father of modern science?
What was the name of the telescope that Galileo Galilei used to make his observations of the planets?
What did Galileo Galilei discover about the planets?
Who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
What is the name of the law that states that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force?
What is the name of the law that states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on the object, and inversely proportional to the mass of the object?
What is the name of the law that states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?
What is the name of the law that states that the force of attraction between two objects is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them?
Who developed the three laws of planetary motion?
What is the name of the law that states that the planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus?
What is the name of the law that states that a line connecting a planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times?
What is the name of the law that states that the square of the period of a planet's orbit is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit?
Who is considered the father of modern astronomy?
What was the name of the book that Nicolaus Copernicus published in 1543 in which he presented his heliocentric model of the universe?
Who was the first person to observe the moons of Jupiter?