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document.write( "| Aristotelian World View | Motionless earth was fixed at center of universe, God was beyond. |
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document.write( "| Francis Bacon | English politician, writer. Formalized the empirical method. Novum Organum. Inductive reasoning. |
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document.write( "| Tycho Brahe | Established himself as Europe\'s foremost astronomer of his day; detailed observations of new star of 1572. |
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document.write( "| Robert Boyle | Physicist, nothing can be known beyond all doubt. |
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document.write( "| Andrew Celsius | Invented measurement of temperature - Celsius. |
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document.write( "| Nicolaus Copernicus | Polish clergyman. Sun was the center of the universe; the planets went around it. On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres. Destroyed Aristotle\'s view of the universe - heliocentric theory. |
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document.write( "| Heliocentric Theory | Sun is the center of the universe. Coperican |
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document.write( "| Geocentric Theory | Earth is the center of the universe. Aristotelian. |
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document.write( "| Descartes | (1596-1650) French philosopher, discovered analytical geometry. Saw Algebra and Geometry have a direct relationship. Reduced everything to spiritual or physical. |
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document.write( "| Deductive Reasoning | Descartes, doubt everything and use deductive reasoning. Reasoning based on facts. Combined with empiricism to create scientific method. |
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document.write( "| Inductive Reasoning | Baconian empiricism. Based speculations on other situations. |
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document.write( "| Discourse on Methods | Descartes (1677) espoused deductive reasoning. |
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document.write( "| Empiricism | Bacon\'s theory of inductive reasoning. |
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document.write( "| Gabriel Fahrenheit | Developed measurement of temperature with freezing at 32 degrees. |
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document.write( "| Galileo Galilei | Created modern experimental method. Formulated the law of inertia. Tried for heresy and forced to recant. Saw Jupiter\u2019s moons. Wrote Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World |
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document.write( "| Gresham College | Located in England. Leading place for the advancement of science. First time scientists had a honored roll in society; center of scientific activity. |
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document.write( "| William Harvey | Englishman who announced blood circulates throughout the body. |
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document.write( "| Carl Linnaeus | System Nature- developed methods to classify and name plants and animals. |
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document.write( "| Natural Law | Universal law that could be understood by applying reason; letting people govern themselves. |
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document.write( "| Isaac Newton | English scientist. 3 Laws of motion. Mathematics Principal of Natural Philosophy (1687). |
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document.write( "| Ptolemy\u2019s System | Last great ancient astronomer; there was a place for God. Complicated rules used to explain minor irregularities in the movement of the planets. |
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document.write( "| The Royal Society of London | Established by Charles II in 1662; purpose to help the sciences. |
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document.write( "| Discourses on the Origins of Inequalities | Rousseau, discuss the innocence of man and his corruption by society. |
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document.write( "| Voltaire | French, perhaps greatest Enlightenment thinker. Deist. Mixed glorification and reason with an appeal for better individuals and institutions. Wrote Candide. Believed enlightened despot best form of government. |
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document.write( "| Deism | God built the Universe and let it run. Clockmaker theory. |
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document.write( "| Enlightened despot | Enlightened ruler. Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great. |
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document.write( "| Humanitarianism | Promoting human welfare and social reform. |
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document.write( "| Second Treatise of Government | (1690) Written by Locke, Government created to protect life, liberty, and property. |
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document.write( "| Essay Concerning Human Understanding | (1690) Written by Locke, tabula rasa theory. |
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document.write( "| Rococo | Art style that focuses on pastels, ornate interiors, and sentmental portraits. |
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document.write( "| The Spirit of Laws | 1748) Montesquieu, about separation of powers. |
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document.write( "| The Social Contract | Rousseau, suggestions in reforming the political system and modeled after the Greek polis. |
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document.write( "| Candide | Voltaire, satirizing society and organized religion in Europe. |
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document.write( "| Montesquieu | French philosophe. Wrote The Spirit of Laws. Said \"Power checks power\". Separation of powers. Form of government varies according to climate. |
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