Flashcards: 16 Scientific Revolution Crawford
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| Francis Bacon (d. 1626) |  Invented the scientific method and inductive reasoning (move from specific to general). |
| Blaise Pascal (d. 1662) | Tried to get Christianity and science to work together. Believed that the natural world can never prove the existence of God. |
| Paracelsus (d. 1541) | Thought that people were small replicas of the universe. Chemical cures/like cures like. |
| Margaret Cavendish (d. 1673) | Famous female scientific critic; esp. criticized attempts to master nature. |
| Galileo Galilei (d. 1642) | Used a telescope to prove the heliocentric theory. Condemned by the Inquisition. |
| René Descartes (d. 1640) | Wrote the Discourse on Method, where he suggested one should only accept philosophies based on reason. Started by proving his own existence. |
| Nicolaus Copernicus (d. 1543) | Responsible for heliocentric theory. |
| Andreas Vesalius (d. 1564) | Suggested practical research to understand anatomy. |
| William Harvey (d. 1657) | Laid the foundation for modern physiology by describing the motion of heart & blood. |
| balance of humors | Medical philosophy that dominated the Middle Ages. Illness came from imbalance of natural "humours" in the body. Cure by contraries. |
| Rationalism | The idea that the universe can be explained, and that one should not trust anything that cannot be proved rationally. |
| Johannes Kepler (d. 1630) | Mathematician who described planetary orbits. |
| Sir Isaac Newton (d. 1727) | Invented calculus. Wrote Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (called Principia), which described a mechanical universe. |
| Benedict de Spinoza (d. 1677) | Invented monism, which says that God is the universe. We are all part of the mind of God. |
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