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- The author of "Observations upon Experimental Philosophy" and "Grounds of Natural Philosophy" was
- The foundation of Francis Bacon's scientific method was built on
- Galileo's idea that a body in motion continues in motion unless deflected by an external force is called the principle of
- The French Academy differed from the English Royal Society in the former's
- The Inquisition found Galileo guilty of teaching condemned ideas and sentenced him
- During the seventeenth century, royal and princely patronage of science
- The cosmological views of Antiquity and the Middle Ages held that which of the following was the center of the universe
- Renaissance humanists mastery of Greek made new works of which of the following available EXCEPT?
- The foundation of Rene Descartes's scientific method was built on deductive
- According to Leonardo da Vinci, what subject was the key to understanding the nature of things?
- The greatest achievements in science during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries came in what three areas?
- As one measure of the French crown's terrible financial predicament, by 1788 the interest payments on the state debt alone amounted to
- A successful slave rebellion against French rule occurred in
- What was the religion of N. Europe during the Renaissance?
- The Committee of Public Safety's campaign of Terror was directed almost exclusively against the Catholic clergy and members of the aristocracy and wealthy bourgeoisie.
- The Bastille was a royal prison containing more than 300 prisoners in July 1789 when it was attacked by a Parisian mob.
- The American Revolution was greatly admired by most Europeans in the 1770s and 1780s because it established a republican form of government rather than a monarchy.
- When the Estates-General convened in 1789, the three estates unanimously agreed to vote by head
- The clergy comprised the majority of the Second Estate
- The Civil Code (Code Napoleon) recognized the principle of equality among all citizens before the law, religious toleration, and the abolition of serfdom and feudalism