Question

One of the results of the inventions of the microscope and telescope is that it expanded the world as people knew it. Distant stars and microscopic organisms previously unseen and unknown provided a wealth of knowledge to scholars. Which of these statements is true regarding these two inventions?

Image resolution has advanced as far as it can ever go.

Galileo made important improvements to both instruments.

Telescopic lenses, found in Greece, date back 2000 years.

Lenses in microscopes and telescopes can form perfect images.

Answer 1

@confluxepic

Answer 2

Yeah. @brucebaner

Answer 3

okay

Answer 4

What do you think it is.

Answer 5

@brucebaner

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

What do you think we could eliminate.

Answer 8

c

Answer 9

We can eliminate A and D for sure because those are not true.

Answer 10

okay

Answer 11

http://www.microscope-microscope.org/basic/microscope-history.htm

Answer 12

So after reading that what do you think the correct answer is.

Answer 13

b

Answer 14

Yes.

Answer 15

thx

Answer 16

You're welcome.

Answer 17

Francis Bacon was an early proponent of the scientific method and promoted the Baconian Method, a methodology for scientific inquiry. It states

you should be able to deduce by inductive reasoning the real nature of things.

inherent forms only exist in conjunction with matter.

the idea is the permanent reality that makes a thing what it is.

the spiritual world has subsistent forms separate from the material world.

Answer 18

can you help me @confluxepic

Answer 19

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baconian_method