11. The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Flashcards
Copernicus wrote:___________, what was it about
“On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies”
about his heliocentric view
Who supported Copernicus with mathematical observation
Tycho Brahe
What is Johannes Kepler known for
Kepler’s 3 laws of planetary motion
In what year is considered the beginning of Scientific Revolution?
What else happened that year?
1543
-Copernicus died
Galileo was accused of his heliocentric views by which pope?
Pope Urban VII
Which two famous people came up with the Scientific Method? how?
Sir Francis BACON’s Inductive method
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Rene DESCARTES’s Deductive method
What is an example of an organized Scientific Society?
Royal Society in England
Sir Isaac Newton published:__________
basically came up with?
“Principia”
a single mathematical formula of universal gravitation
Who were Philosophes?
Key thing about them?
thinkers who exposed social problems and proposed reforms
- Reason.
New religious movement: Deism: what was Deist beliefs
God exists as a watchmaker who created the universe then let it run according to natural laws
Who was best known and most influential philosophe (aka Prince of the philosophes)?
What is his famous saying and what does it mean?
- Voltaire
- “Crush the Infamous Thing”, said against the flaws of the Christian church system
Denis Diderot
chief editor of “Encyclopedia”
Importance of Encyclopedia?
2 things
- Disseminated(spread) enlightened thinking across Europe and NA
- Undermined political and religious authorities by including controversial articles
“The Spirit of the Laws” written by?
what is it about?
Montesquieu
- Separation of powers among executive, legislative, and judicial branches
Jean-Jacques Rousseau associated himself with two topics:
Natural education and the General Will
