Scientifi Revolution and Enlightenment

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Francis Bacon

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Inductive thinker who stressed experimentation in arriving at truth

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Aristotelian/Ptolemaic cosmology

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Geocentric view of the universe

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Polish astronomer who posed a heliocentric universe

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Deism

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Belief I that God created the universe and set it in motion before watching humans forge their own destiny

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Rene Descartes

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Deductive thinker (I think therefore I am) challenged truth derived from tradition and scriptures

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Enlightenment

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Intellectual revolution of the 18th c. When philosophes stressed reason natural law and progress in their criticism of social injustice

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Galileo

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Formulated terrestrial laws and modern inertia . Provided evidence for helio centrism

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Laisaez-faire

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Adam smiths idea that the best economic policy was one where government played a minimal role

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Isaac Newton

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Formulated the law of gravitation where the universe operated under natural laws

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Philosophes

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Social critics of the 18th c. Who emphasized reason

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Royal society of London/French Academy of Sciences

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Organized bodies of scientific study

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Tabula Rasa

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John locke’s theory of ones mind being completely blank at birth