A) authorities reluctantly agreed to his theories
B) turned him over to the Papal Curia.
C) allowed Galileo six months to change his mind concerning his theories
D) forced to recant them in a trial before the Inquisition
E) turned him over to the Inquisition to be tortured
G) A) and C)
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A) astronomy
B) art
C) biology
D) the Bible
E) mathematics.
G) A) and C)
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A) was an English aristocrat.
B) a German astronomer.
C) became a member of the Berlin Academy and England's Royal Society for her scientific work.
D) was the mother of the more famous Robert Boyle.
E) b and c
G) A) and C)
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A) was Andreas Vesalius' masterpiece on anatomical structure.
B) contained William Harvey's theories on blood circulation.
C) contained Paracelsus' theories on a macrocosm-microcosm universe.
D) was Galen's masterpiece that influenced so many doctors in the Middle Ages.
E) was Cavendish's theory of human dissection.
G) A) and E)
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A) as a Protestant, he felt free to disagree with the Pope.
B) it earned him lots of money and fame.
C) it made the planetary orbits easier to calculate.
D) he regarded the Sun as the most powerful god
E) the sun is the source of all energy on earth.
G) C) and D)
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A) that humans through science were masters of nature.
B) that science was for the benefit of all humanity.
C) in women being equal to men, despite her position.
D) of a Newtonian world-machine.
E) of a heliocentric universe.
G) A) and D)
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B) False
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A) Galileo.
B) Copernicus.
C) Brahe.
D) Kepler.
E) Newton.
G) A) and E)
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A) the scientific community's growing acceptance of female members.
B) Maria Merian's breakthrough in astronomy.
C) Margaret Cavendish, who participated in her era's scientific debates.
D) Maria Winkelmann, an entomologist accepted into the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
E) the exclusion and absence of women from any scientific investigations.
G) B) and E)
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A) believed that the world was a very recent creation still imperfect.
B) credited the devil with control over the dark secrets of nature.
C) saw the world as a living embodiment of divinity where humans could use mathematics and magic to dominate nature.
D) retreated from study of the natural world to concentrate on mastery of theories of magic.
E) a and d
G) C) and D)
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A) the practical knowledge and technical skills emphasized by sixteenth-century universities.
B) mathematical and naturalistic skills of Renaissance artists.
C) the Hermetic belief in magic and alchemy.
D) the humanists' rediscovery of Greek mathematicians and thinkers.
E) the inspired work of a few intellectuals.
G) A) and B)
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A) were resisted more in his own country, England, than in the rest of Europe.
B) although readily accepted in his own country, were resisted on the continent.
C) were modern in their removal of God from universal laws.
D) were among the first to be printed in a language other than Latin.
E) were initially condemned by the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
G) C) and E)
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