Scientific Revolution Flashcards
What made new scientific discoveries possible
The invention of Telescopes and Microscopes
What invention made spreading ideas faster
Printing Press
Argued that the Sun was at the center of the universe, he also argued that the earth revolves around the sun
Nicolaus Copernicus
Proved Copernicus’s Theory
Johannes Kepler
Observed that planets were not made of pure light but of solid material just like Earth
Galileo Galilei
True or False The Church ordered Galileo Galilei to abandon the Copernican system
True
Argued that the laws of motion governed the motion of planets and objects on Earth
Isaac Newton
Dissected animals to come up with a picture of a human anatomy
Galen
Dissected actual humans and presented an actual human anatomy
Andreas Vesalius
Showed that the heart is the starting point of blood circulation
William Harvey
Invented a system of naming chemicals
Antoine Lavoisier
Said that humans had no power over natural phenomenon
Margaret Cavendish
Discovered a comet
Maria Wikelmann
Said the mind and body are two separate entities
Rene Descartes
Invented the scientific method
Francis Bacon
Believed that people are born with a blank mind
John Locke
Believed that the government is made of 3 branches (which btw are executive, legislative, and judicial)
Baron de Montesquieu
Criticized Christianity and believed in religious tolerance
Voltaire
Made the Encyclopedia Classified Dictionary of Sciences, Arts, and Trade
Denis Diderot
Believed that if the government would give people freedom then society would be better as a whole.
Adam Smith
Is against capital punishment
Cesar Beccaria
Believed the Idea of social contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
English missionary preached to the masses about salvation which gave rise to Methodism
John Welsey
Founder of the European and American movement for the rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
