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World History chpt15
Age of reason
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scientific Method Steps | Question, Observation, Experimentation, Conclusion, Verification |
| Scientific Tools | telescopes, microscopes, thermometer, barometer |
| Rationalism | belief that reason is the method of gaining knowledge and the only source of truth |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | creator of heliocentric theory |
| Johannes Kepler | discovered elliptical orbits of the planets |
| Galileo Galilei | Physics: pendulum, time Astronomy: improved telescope |
| Isaac Newton | Prism; Laws of Gravity-Principia |
| Andreas Vesalius | studied human anatomy |
| Edward Jenner | smallpox and cowpox vaccination |
| Robert Boyle | author of Law of Inverse Gas Pressure |
| Joseph Priestley | Chemical discoveries: ammonia, oxygen, "laughing gas", etc. |
| Antoine Lavoisier | Father of Modern Chemistry, wrote Law of Conservation and matter |
| Inductive Reasoning | Observation and experimentation used to form tentative conclusions, verify results, and generalize conclusions-SPECIFIC TO GENERAL |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Advocate of Inductive reasoning: all knowledge should be questioned |
| Deductive reasoning | Reason should be assisted by mathematics to guide reason; doubt everything |
| Rene Descartes | Advocate of Deductive Reasoning: "I doubt therefore i thing; I think therefore i am" |
| Dualism | 2 realities, mind and matter |
| Baruch Spinoza | Advocate of Pantheism |
| Pantheism | everything in the universe is part of one substance called "god"; spiritual and physical are not distinct |
| John Locke | Empiricist; wrote on mans natural rights : life, liberty, property |
| Empiricism | Philosophy: "All knowledge comes through experience" |
| Montesquieu | wrote on separation of powers |
| Voltaire | Wrote of religious tolerance; separation of church and state |
| Denis Diderot | Complied Encyclopedie; opposed by French government and Catholic church |
| Jean Jacques Russeau | Wrote of the Social Contract; Father of Romanticism |
| Romanticism | Emotion over reason |
| Deism | God is the "Grand Architect"; God creates the world then steps back and watches, never intervenes |
| Pietism | spiritual awakening in Germany; emphasis on christian fellowship |
| van Leeuwenhoek | inventor of microscope |
| John Wesley | began methodist movement:circuit preacher in England |
| George Whitfield | English; preached in america and england |
| Jonathan Edwards | American pastor; known for sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an angry God" |
| heliocentric theory | the theory that the planes orbit around the sun |
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