Chapter 21 - Reading 1

Joseph Banks

________ (president of the Royal Society) linked scientific inquiry to real- world applications and economic purposes.

Deductive reasoning

________: arguing from general principles to specific truth.

universal law of gravitation

The ________: All matter exerts gravitational attraction in inverse proportion to mass and distance.

Ancients

authority of Aristotle and other classical authors as the foundation of knowledge in fields such as medicine, math, and astronomy

Modern

rejected classical authority & Christian theology, human reason as the key to knowledge, contradicted traditional Christian conceptions

The universal law of gravitation

All matter exerts gravitational attraction in inverse proportion to mass and distance