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West civ 1650-
Exam one
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Professor at Cambridge, gravity, calculus, Principia | Isaac Newton |
| Philosopher, founding father, wrote Second Treatise on Government | John Locke |
| Thomas Hobbes | |
| Voltaire | |
| Montesquieu | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| Denis Diderot | |
| Adam Smith | |
| Mary Wolstonecraft | |
| Reason, logic, criticism & freedom of thought over dogma, blind faith and superstition. | Themes for the Enlightment |
| From Poland, worked on a theory for 25 years, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres | Nicolas Copernicus |
| From Denmark, data for the solar system | Tycho Brahe |
| The laws of planetary motion | Johann Kepler |
| Telescope,mountains on the moon, moons around Jupiter, wrote The Starry Messenger, condemned by the church. | Galileo Gallilei |
| Inductive reasoning & Scientific method | Francis Bacon |
| Accepted only what his reason said was true, "I think, therefore I am," analytic geometry | Rene Descartes |
| Dissected bodies, heart the center, wrote a textbook | Vesalius |
| Foundations of modern chemistry | Robert Boyle |
| Used the microscope, bacteria | Antoni Leeuwenhoek |
| Astronomer,discovered comets | Maria winkelmann |
| Logarithms | Sir John Napier |
| Hermetic Doctrine | |
| Joseph Addison | |
| Pierre Bayle | |
| Emilie du Chatelet | |
| Joseph II |