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Chapter 1 Review
Review of Chapter 1
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| The Scientific Revolution | new ideas and knowledge in physics, astronomy, biology, medicine and chemistry transformed medieval and ancient views of nature and laid the foundations for modern science | |
| Nicolas Copernicus | Nicolas Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. | |
| William Harvey | William Harvey was the first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart. | |
| Galileo | Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations. | |
| Johannes Kepler | Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer; best known for his 3 laws of planetary motion | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. Bacon created the Baconian method which later became known as the scientific method. | |
| Rene Descartes | Rene Descartes was a French philosopher and writer. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'. His writtings are studied closely to this day. | |
| Sir Isaac Newton | Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian.Newton came up with universal gravitation and the laws of motion. | |
| John Locke | His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. | |
| Thomas Hobbes | Was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy; was a champion of absolutism for the sovereign but he also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought | |
| Philopsophes | Philosophers, One who studies general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. the intellectuals of the 18th century. | |
| Progress | to move forward. The Vindication of the Rights of Women Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist | |
| Deism | a natural religion; Deists believe in the existence of God without any reliance on revealed religion or religious authority or holy text | |
| Tolerance | allowing things to happen. | |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | was a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy heavily influenced the French Revolution, as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights | |
| The Vindication of the Rights of Woman | The Vindication of the Rights of Women Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist | |
| The Social Contract | The Social Contract was a progressive work that helped inspire political reforms or revolutions. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. | |
| The General Will | made famous by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a concept in political philosophy referring to the desire or interest of a people as a whole. As used by Rousseau, the "general will" is identical to the rule of law. | |
| The Age of Enlightenment | A time were man began to reason for himself. |
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