Evaluate the legacy of the Scientific Revolution. Pay particular attention to the aspects of the Scientific Revolution that remain influential today.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. Many of the ideas and discoveries of the Scientific Revolution form the basis of the modern sciences.
b. Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey contributed to medicine and anatomy.
c. Galileo and Johannes Kepler contributed to astronomy.
d. Isaac Newton and Galileo contributed to physics.
e. René Descartes’s argument for a division between the spiritual and scientific worlds formed the basis of dualism.
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A) The three-fifths clause was unfair and should be stricken from the Constitution. B) With the Northwest Ordinance, the Founding Fathers expressed their intention to halt the expansion of slavery. C) The Constitution banned slavery from western territories. D) Blacks were equals of whites and were immorally held in slavery.
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