The Quiz: Nicolaus Copernicus helped launch what 16th-century European movement?
The Golden Age of Sail
The Scientific Revolution
The Golden Age of Poetry
The English Reformation
For almost 2,000 years, there were very few advancements in Western science. This all changed in the 16th and 17th centuries with a Golden Age of science, known as the Scientific Revolution. Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized how we see the universe, and devised a theory that placed the sun (rather than the Earth) at its center. Many advancements in physics, biology, mathematics, and chemistry were also made during this period by scientists like Galileo, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and Johannes Kepler.
The correct answer to this quiz is The Scientific Revolution.