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Western Civ Ch. 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Age of Enlightenment | |
| John Locke | Founded the School of Empiricism. Father of Liberalism. |
| Nicolas Copernicus | Founder of modern astronomy. Proposed a heliocentric model for the solar system. |
| William Harvey | English physician who discovered that the heart is the reason blood circulates through the human body. |
| Galileo | Discovered the use of the telescope, sun spots, mountains & valleys on the moon, largest satellites of Jupiter, the laws of falling bodies and the motions of projectiles, and the phases of Venus. |
| Johannes Kepler | Formulated and verified the three laws of planetary motion. |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Father of Empiricism. |