Chapter 21 - Reading 1

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Joseph Banks
________ (president of the Royal Society) linked scientific inquiry to real- world applications and economic purposes.
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Deductive reasoning
________: arguing from general principles to specific truth.
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universal law of gravitation
The ________: All matter exerts gravitational attraction in inverse proportion to mass and distance.
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Ancients
authority of Aristotle and other classical authors as the foundation of knowledge in fields such as medicine, math, and astronomy
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Modern
rejected classical authority & Christian theology, human reason as the key to knowledge, contradicted traditional Christian conceptions
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The universal law of gravitation
All matter exerts gravitational attraction in inverse proportion to mass and distance