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APEH Palmer6JAP
Question | Answer |
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Inductive Method | Method where you bulid knowledge based off of observations. |
Empiricism | Doctrine that states that all knowledge is formed from experience. |
Cognito Ergo Sum | "I Think, Therefore I am" By Descartes to prove he was a thinking being. |
Montaigne | Humanitst who believed in a tolerant, humane, and broad minded outlook. |
New Atlantis | Written by Francis Bacon is a book where there is a perfect scientific utopia with a perfect society becasue of their knowledge of nature. |
Advancement of Learning | Written by Bacon where he insists that true knowledge is useful knowledge. |
Vesalius | Believed Galen theory of anatomy early in his career but then based his discriptions on actual human bodies he studied. |
William Harvey | His book on the movement of the Heart and Blood put out his theory of the continual circulatioon of the blood through arteries and veins. |
Leeuwoenhoek | Using Mircoscopes saw blood corpuscles, spermatozoa,a nd bacteria. |
Tycho Brahe | Proved Copernicus's theory of planets moving a a cirular pattern was inncorrect his assistant Johannes Kepler whould prove it was an ellipse. |
Heliocentric Theory | Theory of the solar system where the planets and the moons revolve around the sun. |
Pierre Bayle | A Huguenot who stated that truth is often an opinion. |
Edmund Halley | First man to predict the return of the commet of 1682. |
Richard Simon | Priest who said Catholic faith was based on tradition instead of acutal bible translations. He also doubted the old testments origin. |
Jean Mabillon | Established the science fo paleography. Which is the deciphering, readin dating, and authenticateing of mnauscripts. |
James Usher | A Archbishop who sutdied the bible and announced the date 4004 B.C as the creation of the world. |
Paleograph | study of deciphering, reading, dating,and authenticating manuscripts. |
Numismatics | The study of Coins, metals, and paper money. |
Biblical criticism | The study of the bible's writings in order to discrimanate its passages. |
Gregorian Claendar | Christian Claendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII. |
The Prince | Book by Niccolo Machiavelli where he writes how to be a sucessful ruler. In it he also seperates the study of politics from theology and moral philosophy. |
Two Treatises of Goverment | Written by John Locke where he shows moderate religion is a good thing and to learn from your experiences. His ideas favored a belief in self-goverment. |
Leviathan | A monster in the bible is the book by Hobbes that expressed his absolutism and theory of unlimited sovereignty of the state. |
Samuel Pufendorf | wrote Law of Nature and of Nations and believed that sovereign states should work together for the common good. |
hugo Grotius | Wrote the Law fo War and Peace. Also believed in sovereign states working together and being subordinate to natural reason. |
Kepler | Assistant to Tycho brahe he discovered that the planets move in an ellipse. |
on the Revolutions fo heavenly Orbs | Book by Nicholas Copernicus that stated the sun was the center of the solar system and the planets mover around it in a cirular motion. |
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | series written by Isaac Newton it desccribes the laws of motion and the rules of philosphy. |
Peasoonableness of Christianity | Book by Baruch Spinoza that Christianity is the most reasonable religion and helped soften the friction between religion and natural knowledge. |
Essay Conerning the Human Understanding | One of John Locke's deepest books it answers the question of if knowledge is certian with his answer of true knowleg=dge is derived from experience. |