AP®︎ European History: Topic 4.2 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 4.2 of AP European History – The Scientific Revolution.
Questions List
Topic 4.2
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-1.1.IV.C
Who is credited with developing the scientific method?
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Topic 4.2: The Scientific Revolution
Thematic Focus: Technological and Scientific InnovationTSI
Scientific and technological innovations have increased efficiency, improved daily life, and shaped human development and interactions, having both intended and unintended consequences.
Learning Objective: Unit 4: Learning Objective B
Explain how understanding of the natural world developed and changed during the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment.
Historical Developments: KC-1.1.IV.A
New ideas and methods in astronomy led individuals, including Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, to question the authority of the ancients and traditional knowledge, and to develop a heliocentric view of the cosmos.
Historical Developments: KC-1.1.IV.B
Anatomical and medical discoveries by physicians, including William Harvey, presented the body as an integrated system, challenging the traditional humoral theory of the body and of disease espoused by Galen.
Historical Developments: KC-1.1.IV.C
Francis Bacon and René Descartes defined inductive and deductive reasoning and promoted experimentation and the use of mathematics, which would ultimately shape the scientific method.
Historical Developments: KC-1.1.IV.D
Alchemy and astrology continued to appeal to elites and some natural philosophers, in part because they shared with the new science the notion of a predictable and knowable universe. At the same time, many people continued to believe that the cosmos was governed by spiritual forces.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Paracelsus
- Andreas Vesalius
- Paracelsus
- Johannes Kepler
- Sir Isaac Newton
