The scientific revolution itself and its results

Tycho Brahe differed from Copernicus in that

_____________ did some of the MOST groundbreaking work on the nature of optics and white light.

Europeans believed, generally, in the geocentric theory of the universe, even though this model had been contradicted by empirical evidence discovered and proposed several hundred years B.C.E. by __________.

Johannes Kepler built on the work of his mentor, Tycho Brahe, to

_________ made the first challenge to the Ptolemaic conception of the universe.

Acute gastritis (ulceration) is likely caused by:

The Neoplatonists contributed to the progress of the scientific revolution by

A patient with a diagnosis of cirrhosis of the liver will have a liver that will feel_________on palpation.  The texture of the liver surface will most likely be ________.

The Renaissance also gave rise to a vogue for ______, which laid more social and intellectual groundwork for the scientific revolution.