The Scientific Revolution – Guided Reading Worksheet
Name: ______________
Class: ______
Date: ______
Read pages 165- 170 in your textbooks and answer the questions below
1. How did alchemists differ from scientists?
2. List and explain three (3) things that led to the scientific revolution
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3. Explain the geo-centric theory of the universe?
4. Explain the helio-centric theory?
5. How did Copernicus and Kepler challenge traditionally held views about
astronomy?
6. How did Kepler’s methods differ from Galileo’s?
7. What newly invented instrument most influenced Galileo’s work?
8. How did the Catholic Church respond to Galileo’s discoveries?
9. How would you describe the work of Decartes and Bacon?
10. What made them scientific revolutionaries?
11. What forms the basis of Isaac Newton’s discovery?
12. How did his discovery reinforce those of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo?
13. If scholars during the middle ages relied on religious faith to explain the world
around them, what did scientists during the late stages of the renaissance rely upon
to explain the world?
14. Explain TWO reasons why the scientific revolution expresses “renaissance”
thinking. (Hint: think about what renaissance ideas were expressed in the art and
apply that thinking to what the scientists were doing)