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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inductive Method (Scientific Method) | A process of using observations to develop general principles about a specific subject. It was and is a new method of acquiring knowledge. |
| Advancement of Learning | Written by Francis Bacon. Published in 1623. "Advancement of Learning" is the English translation. Bacon insisted that true knowledge was useful. |
| Heliocentric Theory | The astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary sun at the center of the solar system. Created by Nicholas Copernicus and helped many to understand how the solar system is like. |
| James Usher | He was a prolific scholar, who famously published a chronology that purported to establish the time and date. Created a system which "records" the time and date of an event. |
| The Prince | A political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. It described the characteristics of an effective leader. |
| Kepler | A German mathematical mystic, part-time astrologer and a scientific genius. Kepler helped to further develop the Copernican theory. He discovered that the orbits of the planets were ellipses, not circles. |
| Empiricism | The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. It is the understanding of how we acquire knowledge. |
| Cogito Ergo Sum | English - "I think, therefore I am." A philosophical Latin statement proposed by Rene Descartes. |
| Vesalius | An anatomist, physician and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy. Helped discover more about the human anatomy. |
| Pierre Bayle | He was a Huguenot (French Protestant). Devoted to scholarship and education. Plays a singularly important role as a precursor of the philosophes (deistic or materialistic writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment). |
| Paleography | The study of ancient writing. Learning to read Latin or Greek is, of course, critical to the aspiring medievalist or classicist |
| William Harvey | An English physician who 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. |
| Edmund (Edmond) Halley | An English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's comet. |
| Numismatics | The study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects. |
| Montaigne | One of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. |
| Leeuwenhoek | A Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist. |
| Richard Simon | A French biblical critic. |
| Samuel von Pufendorf | A German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian. Among his achievements are his commentaries and revisions of the natural law theories of Thomas Hobbes and Hugo Grotius. |
| Tycho Brahe | A Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. |
| Jean Mabillon | A French Benedictine monk and scholar, considered the founder of palaeography and diplomatics. |
| Hugo Grotius | A jurist in the Dutch Republic. He was also a philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet. He laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. |
| Leviathan | A sea monster referred to in the Bible. In Demonology, Leviathan is one of the seven princes of Hell and its gatekeeper. |
| Gregorian Calendar | Also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar, is the internationally accepted civil calendar. Introduced by Pope Gregory XIII. |
| Biblical Criticism | The scholarly "study and investigation of Biblical writings that seeks to make discerning and discriminating judgments about these writings." |
| New Atlantis | A utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published in Latin. Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. |
| Reasonableness of Christianity | Was created by John Locke. Theologians cannot find God by themselves. He never taught that Christianity can be found by human reasoning. |
| Two Treatises of Government | A work of political philosophy by John Locke. First Treatise: patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence. Second Treatise outlines a theory of political or civil society based on natural rights and contract theory. |
| On the Revolutions of Heavenly Orbs | The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus and others. |
| Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | A work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687. |
| An Essay Concerning the Human Understanding | Written by John Locke. Concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. |
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