Scientific Revolution and Age of Enlightenment
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aristotle | Earth is center of the universe |
| Ptolemy | Earth is center of the universe |
| Galen | Surgeon to gladiators |
| Copernicus | (1543) sun is the center of the universe |
| Kepler | (1603) elliptical path of planets |
| Galileo | (1632) used the telescope to observe space |
| Galen | believed liver pumped blood |
| Copernicus | circular path of planets |
| Copernicus | power of observation |
| Galileo | Discovered objects falled at a predictable rate |
| Galileo | Physics |
| Galileo | (1633) Church forces him to recant |
| Sir Isaac Newton | Law of Motion |
| Sir Isaac Newton | Formulated the law of gravity |
| Law of Gravity | Forces attract every object to each other |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Father of scientific method |
| Thomas Harvey | Discovered the circulation of blood by working with cadavers |
| Age of Reason | Application of reason to every aspect of social life |
| Denis Diderot | edited and published "Encyclopedie" |
| "Encyclopedie" | 28 volumes that covered everything then known about the sciences, technology, and history |
| Montesquieu | Believed in seperate powers (legislative, executive, and judicial) |
| Montesquieu | "The Spirit of Laws" |
| Voltaire | "Candide" |
| "Candide" | mocked the church and royal court of the Bourban Dynsaty |
| Voltaire | Believed strongly in freedom of speech |
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