Question

Select the correct answer. How did humanism foster the Scientific Revolution? A. Humanism promoted the study of classical works that stimulated exploration of science. B. Humanism created ideal humans who made effective scientific inventions. C. Humanism promoted the study of theology, which led to an understanding of the relationship between religion and science. D. Humanism promoted the study of the scientific method used to conduct experiments. E. Humanism blindly followed medieval religious texts to make new scientific discoveries.

Answer 1

The answer is D.

Humanism put emphasis on humans, rather than something like God. This led to the widespread rejection of blindly accepted theology, and led to the development of the scientific method.

Answer 2

Answer:

D. Humanism promoted the study of the scientific method used to conduct experiments.

Explanation:

Humanism was a European intellectual, cultural, and philosophical movement that took place during the Renaissance, starting in Northern Italy, and later expanded to the rest of Europe. Humanism was characterized by focusing on human being and human rationality as the center of the universe, rather than god, as it was believed in the previous centuries of the Middle Ages. It was inspired by classical philosophy, aesthetics, and ethics and it promoted the study of nature in a rational and empirical way.

In this context, scientists started to conduct experiments in order to understand how nature works and it led to the development of the scientific method. One of the great hallmarks of this process was the work of Galileo Galilei, an Italian physicist and astronomer, who is often considered as the father of the scientific method. His studies and observations of heavenly bodies with a telescope gave evidence for the Heliocentric model (in which the Earth rotates around the Sun), against the classical Geocentric model (in which the Earth is the center of the universe). This was the starting point of the Scientific Revolution, which continued with the studies of Kepler and Newton.