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Galileo believed that the universe was written in the language of mathematics. _____ |
| | A) | True |
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Galileo did not renounce his belief in the Copernican system before the Catholic Inquisition. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Isaac Newton explained the universal law of gravitation in his great 1687 work, Principia. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Scientific Revolution was based on the acquisition of knowledge through experimentation and observation of nature. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Robert Boyle laid the foundations for modern chemistry. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used a telescope to observe the path of comets in the 1670s. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Rene Decartes’ 1637 work Discourse on Method presents and defends the idea of deductive reasoning. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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According to Francis Bacon, scientific conclusions could be reached from carefully collected data through deductive reasoning. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Scientific Revolution offered women for the first time an equal opportunity to participate in scientific scholarship and societies. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Scientific inquiry was financed solely by the governments of Europe. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Although skepticism was an important part of scientific inquiry, religion and spirituality remained important for the great scientists of the age. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Because of his scientific work, Isaac Newton was lampooned by Enlightenment thinkers at the time of his death in 1727. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Scientific method was used to prove the veracity of some religious miracles and prophecies during the Enlightenment. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume expressed the idea that nothing except for our own human existence could be known for certain. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Enlightenment intellectuals believed that history was the story of inevitable human progress. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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France was the center of the Enlightenment movement. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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One of Voltaire’s major patrons was the French government. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Denis Diderot edited the Encyclopedia. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Most nineteenth century European governments maintained a state religion. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Montesquieu’s work on the separation of powers influenced the framers of the U.S. constitution. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The philosophes found that the idea of rational laws applied only to government. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Most Enlightenment thinkers supported equal rights for women. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Cesare Beccaria's 1764 work, On Crimes and Punishment, advocated that criminal activity, like all other aspects of modern life, should be subject to reason and natural law. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Immanuel Kant, an advocate of both the virtues of education and the march of human progress during the Enlightenment, argued that women should be granted the same educational opportunities as men. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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