Ch. 14 Flashcards

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17th century scientists

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Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Bacon… Etc

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Galileo and nature

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Rational and understood with mathematics

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Characteristics of the Scientific Revolution

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Few participants
Unorganized
Widespread
Astronomy = main field

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Ptolemaic system

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Geocentric; Aristotle and Ptolemy

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Copernican system

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Heliocentric

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Tychonic system

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Geoheliocentric; Mercury and Venus = sun

Everything else = earth

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Traditional view of the universe

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Ptolemaic system; Earth = static and center,

Epicycles and deferents

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Copernican system

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Heliocentric, earth = not the center

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Copernicus’ contribution to Scientific Revolution

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On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

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Brahe’s contribution

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Astronomical data, tychonic system

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Kelper’s contribution

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The New Astronomy, elliptical orbits

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Isaac Newton’s contribution

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Universal gravitation
Laws of motion
Empiricism
Principia Mathematica

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Galileo literary works

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Starry messenger, letters in sunspots

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Galileos view of the universe

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Heliocentric; Copernican system

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Major contribution of Galileo

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Modified telescope

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Mechanism and what natural philosophers believed it achieved

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Explained the world like a clock; God = clock maker

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Francis Bacon

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“Father of Empiricism”, inductive reasoning, Novum Organum

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Cartesian Dualism

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Things of the body vs. things if the mind

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Francis Bacon and knowledge

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Novum Organum; all truth hasn’t been discovered

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Descartes view of nature

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Deductive reasoning, “I think, therefore I am”

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Thomas Hobbes

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Leviathan
Absolutist
Rights are given up for stability
Tyranny is better than anarchy

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John Locke

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  • Two Treaties of Government, letter Concerning Toleration, Essay Concerning the Understanding
  • Ruler gives rights, people give loyalty
  • Against absolutism
  • Everyone is equal
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Tabula Rasa

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Everyone is born with a blank slate

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Maria Winkelmann

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Discovered the comet

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Trial of Galileo

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1633; recanted his works and is out on house arrest

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Blaise Pascal

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Penseés
God exists, humankind unworthy
Opposition to Sceptists and Dominists

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Pascals famous wager

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Take a leap of faith just incase God does exist and live a worthy life

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Physic-theology

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Religious understanding from nature

Science…Rational God…Rational Humanity…Scientific Innovation = Better life

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Targets witchcraft

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80% women, 40+ years, single, midwives

Cunning folk