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| 1. Copernican hypothesis | The stars and planets, including earth, revolved around a fixed sun
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| Cartesian absolutism | decided it was necessary to doubt everything that could reasonably be doubt, use deductive reasoning from self-evident principles to ascertain scientific laws
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| Law of inertia | an object continues in a constant state of motion forever unless stopped by some external force
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| rationalism | theory that nothing was to be accepted on faith, everything was to be submitted to the rational, critical, and scientific way of thinking
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| skepticism | nothing can ever be known beyond doubt, humanity’s best hope was open-minded toleration
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| Tabula Rasa | referring to the human mind at birth, a blank tablet
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| Enlightment | movement that emphasizes the use of reason to examine doctrines and traditions brought on from religious beliefs
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| Enlightened absolutism | when absolute rulers tried to rule in an “enlightened” manner, making many reforms
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| philosophes | – the leading philosophical and political writers that proclaimed they were the ones bringing the light on knowledge into the Age on Enlightenment
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| Kepler | Brahe’s assistant that invented the Three Laws of Planetary Motion
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| Galileo | greatest achievement was the elaboration and consolidation of the experimental method, formulated law of inertia, created sophisticated telescope
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| Bacon | rejected Aristotelian and medieval method of using speculative reasoning to build general theories and argued that new knowledge had to be pursued through experimental research
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| Descartes | discovered analytic geometry, decided it was necessary to doubt everything that could reasonably be doubt, use deductive reasoning from self-evident principles to ascertain scientific laws.
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| Newton | created the laws of gravity
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| Montesquieu | argued that despotism could be avoided if there was a separation of powers and that an independent upper class was especially important
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| Voltaire | the advocate of deism
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| Copernicus | mathematician that came up with the halo centric theory that the sun is the center of the universe
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