People of Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
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Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Nicholas Copernicus | father of heliocentric theory |
| Johannes Kepler | three laws of planetary motion - orbits are elliptical, early idea of gravity |
| Galileo Galilei |  championship of Copernican theory, 20x telescope, objects fall at same rate, brought before inquisition (and yet it still moves) |
| Sir Isaac Newton | father of calculus, Principia Mathematica, laws of motion and universal gravitation, reflecting telescope, buried at Westminster Abbey, quote |
| Andreas Vesalius | ON THE FABRIC OF THE HUMAN BODY, father of human anatomy |
| Robert Boyle | father of chemistry, _______'s law (mass impacted by heat/pressure changes), THE SKEPTICAL CHEMIST |
| Rene Descartes | I think, therefore I am, deductive method of scientific discovery, father of analytical geometry |
| Sir Francis Bacon | father of scientific method/inductive reasoning, NOVUM ORGANUM, THE NEW ATLANTIS |
| Edward Jenner | father of immunization and creator of smallpox vaccine, saved more lives than any other scientist |
| John Locke | TWO TREATISES ON GOVERNMENT (governments are to help people, people can revolt), AN ESSAY OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (born dumb, knowledge thru experience) |
| Thomas Hobbes | disagreed with Locke, LEVIATHAN (people are bad, need strong govt), supported ABSOLUTIST GOVT (contract between people and govt) |
| Jean Jacque Rosseau | man is essentially good, THE SOCIAL CONTRACT (people can be happy if they work together), contributed to FRENCH REVOLUTION, father of romantic period, wrote EMILE (traveling helps you learn) |
| Voltaire | real name - Francois-Marie Arouet, against Catholic church, influenced revolutions, CANDIDE (criticized French society), father of DEISM (God is master of clock, just watches things) |
| Denis Diderot | father of encyclopedia, criticized church for its attempts to limit knowledge, his works banned by church |
| Cesare Beccaria | ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, humans had free will, people should learn to be good in jail rather than be punished, no torture or capital punishment |
| Adam Smith | most important economist ever, THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, people will work for rewards, govt should not be involved in business, good product = success, bad product = fail, US economy based on this |
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