The "crisis of conscience" that affected some European thinkers in the late seventeenth century meant that
A) they no longer believed in God.
B) they had given up hope about the future of the world.
C) they had come to the conclusion that the truth lay in divine revelation.
D) they were slowly moving from traditional medieval ideas to modern views.
Which is a correct statement about the Scientific Revolution?
A) Late medieval technology had little impact on the new learning.
B) Early modern scientists built on the work of medieval thinkers.
C) Most of the new discoveries were done within the context of the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system.
D) Mathematics played a minor role in the discoveries.
A powerful influence on seventeenth-century political thought was the
A) writing of St. Thomas Aquinas.
B) collapse of manorialism in western Europe.
C) rise of a large laboring class.
D) English Civil War.
Regarding Galileo's astronomical writings, the Catholic Church
A) readily accepted them as confirming biblical scripture.
B) agreed with his findings after summoning a church council.
C) arrested Galileo and threatened to torture him.
D) ignored him, although it declared his ideas to be unacceptable.