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People of the Scientific Revolution Flashcards

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How did Copernicus initiate the Scientific Revolution?

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gave birth to the scientific revolution w/ heliocentric model

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How did Johannes Kepler come up with his laws of planetary motion?

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Used Tycho Brahe’s observations to publish his laws of planetary motion

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How did Galileo prove the heliocentric model?

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Used telescope to observe the heavens

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Which type of reasoning did Francis Bacon use?

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Inductive Reasoning

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What is inductive reasoning?

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Reasoning from direct observation

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What did Francis Bacon popularize?

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Scientific Method based on inductive reasoning

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What did Francis Bacon advocate?

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Empiricism

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What is empiricism?

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Knowledge that comes from experience

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What type of reasoning did René Descartes emphasize?

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Deductive reasoning

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What is deductive reasoning?

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Reasoning using reasoning and logic to create theories a=b; b=c; a=c

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What type of reasoning did Issac Newton use to derive his theories of physics?

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Inductive reasoning

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What type of religious philosophy did Pascal follow?

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Sin in mankind can be cured with salvation through faith

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What type of government did Hobbes advocate?

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Absolutism

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What was the reason for Hobbes’ political views?

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Thought humans are innately evil and society should control them

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What type of event influence Hobbes’ political viewpoint?

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English Revolution

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What is Locke’s view of society?

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Man should rebel against society bc society corrupts humans

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What type of political structure was influenced by Locke?

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American democracy

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What type of knowledge backed up Locke’s claims?

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Empiricism

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What did Locke oppose of religion?

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Infants are born in a blank state and knowledge comes from experience (empirical)

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