Scientific Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Nicholas Copernicus | Onthe Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres-heliocentricism, the view that humans weren't center of universe sparked criticism. |
| Tycho Brahe | charted the path of a comet. wasnt circular, but eliptical. |
| Johannes Kepler | planets travel in eliptical paths and 3 laws of planetary motion:1. closer planet it to sun, faster it moved. |
| Galileo Galilei | emergence of international scientific community, galileo devised law of accelerating bodies and provided empirical, based on the senses, evidence. built one of first telescopes. contradicted theory of perfect heavenly bodies. he recanted under pressure by roman inquisition |
| Isaac Newton | 3 laws of motion, universal law of gravitation, calculus, deeply religious man. |
| Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey | based on empirical evidence, contradicted old science and developed modern theory of bloodflow with arteries and veins. |
| Anton von Leeuwenhoek | developed the first microscope |
| Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle | found the cell and boyle criticized the blending of alchemy with chemistry and he found the laws of temperature, pressure, and volume of a gas |
| Francis Bacon | inductive thinking-systematic observation as well as experimentation before articulating theories. didnt appreciate mathematics in scientific investigation |
| Rene Descartes | cartesian dualism=all substances are matter or mind. deductive reasoning moving from general principles to more particular cases by steps of reason |
| Maria Winkelmann | helped prepare astronomical calender for Berlin Academy of Sciences and discovered a comet |
| Maria Sybilla Merian | studied insects |
| women | science was used to corset women because they had a smaller skull |
| Pierre Bayle | most owed more to human credulity than to rigorous and rational thought |
| Gregorian Calendar | remains system of dating in most nations today |
| Baruch Spinoza | all of nature was one substance, which is God. we can conceive of this substance(taking up space) or of though(mind) but these attributes are off the same substance |
| Blaise Pascal | pascal's triangle. probability theory, fell under Jansenist movement which rejected jesuits' strong view of juman freedom |
| Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan-human are born into a state of nature in which life is continual war against everyone else and the only solution is for each individual to leave the state of nature by agreeing to the social contract with the sovereign. rebellion is prohibited |
| John Locke | second treatise on government-man enjoys inalienable rights of life, liberty, equality, property and should government become abusive to these rights of rebellion are greanted. tabula rase or blank slate in which humans learn from experience. |
| Royal Society of London | English scientific society |
| French Academy of Sciences | french university under strict rule from state to make better the state |
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