Purpose To demonstrate understanding of the Scientific Revolution as presented through texts about Galileo. Directions Question: Imagine you are a member of the Inquisition at Galileo's trial. You have the following evidence. Decide your answer to the question: Was Galileo really a heretic. Explain your response with reasoning and support […]

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. "The Enlightenment was an eighteenth-century movement of ideas and practices that made the secular world its [main focus]. It did not necessarily deny the meaning or emotional hold of religion, but it gradually shifted attention away from religious questions toward […]