10-1 Review Questions
- What did the writings of Ptolemy and Archimedes make obvious?
- What new invention helped to spread new scientific ideas quickly and easily?
- Where is Earth placed in the universe according to the Ptolemaic system?
- Contrary to Ptolemy, what did Copernicus argue concerning the construction of the universe?
- What discoveries did Galileo make using a telescope?
- Why did the Church order Galileo to abandon the Copernican idea of the nature of the universe?
- What did Isaac Newton define in his first book, The Principia?
- What did William Harvey’s observations and experiments show?
- What field of science in Germany provided opportunities for women?
- What did Rene Descartes emphasize and assert?
- Who developed the scientific method?
