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Watson chapter 1
Western Civ II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Scientific Revolution | is an era associated primarily with the 16th and 17th centuries during which 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. |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | (German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Italian: in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk;[1] 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology |
| William Harvey | (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was 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. |
| Galileo Galilei | (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564[4] – 8 January 1642),[1][5] commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. |
| Johannes Kepler | was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion |
| Francis Bacon, | was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. |
| René Descartes | was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. |
| Sir Isaac Newton | was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. |
| The Age of Enlightenment | was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe, that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge |
| John Locke | widely known as the Father of Liberalism,[2][3][4] was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. |
| Thomas Hobbes | in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury,[1] was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. |
| The philosophes | were the intellectuals of the 18th century Enlightenment. |
| Progress | the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life, etc |
| Deism | in the philosophy of religion is the standpoint that reason and observation of the natural world, without the need for organized religion, can determine that the universe is a creation and has a creator. |
| Tolerance | is the practice of permitting a thing of which one disapproves, such as social, ethnic, sexual, or religious practices. |
| 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 | was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. |
| The Social Contract | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy |
| The general will | 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,[1] and to Spinoza's mens una. |
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