Nicolas Copernicus is best known
A) As the first scientist to reject the Hermetic tradition and neo-Platonic philosophy
B) As the first person to use a telescope to observe the universe
C) As the first modern thinker to posit that the earth revolved around the sun
D) As the first person to publish a detailed treatise on how gravity operates
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Q1: The Scientific Revolution
A) Began in China and
Q2: The traditional view of the universe
A) Was
Q3: The traditional view of the universe was
Q4: The religious attitude of most early scientists
Q6: Copernicus's astronomical views
A) Were ignored by contemporaries
B)
Q7: Tycho Brahe
A) Was a French peasant who
Q8: Johannes Kepler
A) Showed that science and religion
Q9: Galileo Galilei
A) Denounced Copernicus's astronomical ideas
B) Achieved
Q10: Galileo's greatest contributions include
A) His development of
Q11: The scientist who discovered the law of
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