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| Isaac Newton Said he "stood on the shoulders of giants" (great men of science of the past) Name 3 | Aristotle, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Dante |
| What ancient men of "Science" got it wrong? | Aristotle, Ptolemy, Aquinas |
| The Scientific Rev depended on which medieval event? | The 12th Century Renaissance |
| What did Francis Bacon say about academies of science | Scientific work should be encouraged and shared with other scientists; information exchanged to avoid duplicate research |
| What was the First Science Academy? | The Royal Society in England founded in 1642. |
| Was Isaac Newton regarded as a genius during his lifetime like say..Stephen Hawking? | NO. while his fellow scientists respected him they didn't like him, personally |
| Was Issac Newton a "likable" man? | NO..a solitary genius, quarrelsome, never wanting to publish his research, unfeeling, dour and sour |
| Was Newton a popular professor at Cambridge | NO..he often lectured to empty classrooms |
| What was in Newton's book that makes him famous to us today? | Principles of, and the algorithm for explaining gravity |
| What was the name of Newton's Book? | "Principia Mathematica" |
| What is the thesis of "Principia Mathematica?" | It explains why the planets are held in their orbits |
| According to the Church what kept Nature going from one moment to the next? | Miracles and unwavering faith of the faithful(the cosmos operates based on the will of God) |
| The medieval idea of the universe was that made up of four elements of: | air-fire-water-earth |
| What was the name of Copernicus' book? | "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies" |
| Galileo's discoveries of planetary motion depended on keeping accurate______ | time..Galileo developed pendulum clocks that kept accurate time..medieval clocks could divide the day into 12 hours segments only.. |
| Galileo received news from Holland about the development of a new instrument that would help him with his observations..what was it | a lense grinder had put two lenses at opposite ends of a metal tube creating a telescope |
