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West civ 1650-
Exam one
Question | Answer |
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Professor at Cambridge, gravity, calculus, Principia | Isaac Newton |
Philosopher, founding father, wrote Second Treatise on Government | John Locke |
Thomas Hobbes | |
Voltaire | |
Montesquieu | |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
Denis Diderot | |
Adam Smith | |
Mary Wolstonecraft | |
Reason, logic, criticism & freedom of thought over dogma, blind faith and superstition. | Themes for the Enlightment |
From Poland, worked on a theory for 25 years, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres | Nicolas Copernicus |
From Denmark, data for the solar system | Tycho Brahe |
The laws of planetary motion | Johann Kepler |
Telescope,mountains on the moon, moons around Jupiter, wrote The Starry Messenger, condemned by the church. | Galileo Gallilei |
Inductive reasoning & Scientific method | Francis Bacon |
Accepted only what his reason said was true, "I think, therefore I am," analytic geometry | Rene Descartes |
Dissected bodies, heart the center, wrote a textbook | Vesalius |
Foundations of modern chemistry | Robert Boyle |
Used the microscope, bacteria | Antoni Leeuwenhoek |
Astronomer,discovered comets | Maria winkelmann |
Logarithms | Sir John Napier |
Hermetic Doctrine | |
Joseph Addison | |
Pierre Bayle | |
Emilie du Chatelet | |
Joseph II |