Guided Reading 17–1
1. What did the writings of Ptolemy and Archimedes make obvious?
2. What new invention helped to spread new scientific ideas quickly and easily?
3. Where is Earth placed in the universe according to the Ptolemaic system?
4. Contrary to Ptolemy, why did Copernicus argue concerning the construction of the universe?
5. What discoveries did Galileo make using a telescope?
6. Why did the Church order Galileo to abandon the Copernican idea of the nature of the universe?
7. What did Isaac Newton define in his first Book, The Principle?
8. What did William Harvey’s observations and experiments show?
9. What field of science in Germany provided opportunities for women?
10. What did René Descartes emphasize and assert?
11. Who developed the scientific method?