CSTU 101-Quiz 7-Chp 20 with verified solutions

CSTU 101-Quiz 7-Chp 20 seventeenth century - correct answer The seventeenth century is sometimes called "a century of genius." ~This was the century of Milton and Galileo, Cervantes and Descartes. -Rise of the Scientific Revolution Scientific Revolution - correct answer -1550 (year Copernicus said we are just a planet going around the sun) "New Science" -1700- life of Isaac Newton (greatest scientist of western history along with Einstein) whole mechanical model of universe with physical laws why did scientific revolution occur? - correct answer a natural byproduct of the shift from the medieval to the modern world view, from that vertical hierarchical model in the middle ages to the modern world view. what is the basis for truth in modern science? - correct answer Observation and experimentation. You figure it out for yourself. You investigate it for yourself. Something is true not because somebody tells you, but because you can go into a laboratory, you can test it, and you can experiment. *Scientific method* - correct answer The scientific method is based upon what we call inductive reasoning. -sometimes called the empirical method Inductive reasoning - correct answer When you reason inductively, you reason from *specific* pieces of evidence *to general* conclusions. (3 oranges out of 10 are bad-reason they are all bad) Deductive reasoning - correct answer deductively is reasoning from *general statements to specific* conclusions ~in this case, general statements about the time of year, the place that these oranges are coming from, the weather conditions, and so on.