Scientific Revolution Webquest
Directions: Go to these websites, and watch the short videos found there. Answer the questions that
follow.
http://www.history.com/topics/enlightenment/videos/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us-scientificrevolution
1. Isaac Newton said that science should do what over and over again?
2. The scientific method is like a razor that separates what?
3. Who was the ultimate authority during this time about how the world worked?
4. How did the scientific revolution begin to change the way Europeans thought?
http://www.history.com/topics/enlightenment/videos/beyond-the-big-bang-galileogalilei?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
5. What tool was Galileo the first Europeans to use?
6. Galileo was a devout_________________.
7. For what crime was Galileo told to stand trial?
8. Why did the church care about what Galileo, and others, were saying about the universe/space?
http://www.history.com/topics/enlightenment/videos/beyond-the-big-bang-sir-isaac-newtons-law-ofgravity?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
9. What year was Isaac Newton born?
10. What did Copernicus do?
11. What is the most famous discovery that Isaac Newton made?
12. How did Newton compare the universe and an apple?
13. What did Newton never figure out?
14. Use the Internet, to fill out the chart below (GOES TO NEXT PAGE):
Invention/Discovery
Microscope
Discovered bacteria
What does it do, OR,
what was found?
Who discovered or
invented this?
What year?
Thermometer
Reflective telescope
Smallpox inoculation