Chapter 14 Flashcards
1
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art that originated in Rome and is associated with the Catholic Reformation, characterized by emotional intensity, strong self-confidence, spirit
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Baroque Art
2
Q
- surrendered wealth to pursue austere lifestyle
- wrote “Pensees” (thoughts)
- believed reasons of the heart and a leap of faith could prevail in religious things
- better bet to believe in God than to not
A
Blaise Pascal
3
Q
- aided voltaire
- knowledge of math was more extensive so she helped him write
- translated “Principia”
A
Emilie du Châtelet
4
Q
- father of empiricism
- “The Advancement of Learning” and “Novum Organum”
A
Francis Bacon
5
Q
- used telescope to discover new things about the universe
- “Starry Messenger” and “Letters on Sunspots”
- Named Jupiter’s moons after the Medicis
A
Galileo Galilei
6
Q
earth centered universe
A
geocentric theory
7
Q
sun centered universe
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heliocentric theory
8
Q
- discovered gravity
- “principia”
A
isaac Newton
9
Q
-assisstant to Brahe
-believed in Copernicism
believed heliocentric universe
-“The New Astronomy”
A
johannes kepler
10
Q
- wrote government treatises
- life, liberty, property
- “letter concerning toleration”
- religious toleration was key to salvation
- “Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
A
John Locke
11
Q
english naturalist
-used latin for naming
A
john ray
12
Q
- “Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy”
- “Grounds of Natural Philosophy”
- only woman allowed to visit a meeting of Royal Society of London
A
Margaret Cavendish
13
Q
A
Maria Cunitz
14
Q
- part of huband and wife duo
- discovered comet
- applied for permission to work at the university her husband worked at but was denied
A
Maria Winkelmann
15
Q
- “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”
- challenged Ptolemaic model
- heliocentrism
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COpernicus
