Unit 4 ppl quiz Flashcards
Copernicus
-created heliocentric model
-Revolutions of Heavenly spheres
Brahe
astronomer who made own observatory
Kepler
laws on motion of planets with math
Royal society
promoted scientific research
thomas paine
- Age of Reason and common sense
-deism + progress
Francis bacon
- inductive reasoning
- father of empiricism
Descartes
- math
- father of cartesian dualism(deductive reasoning)
Spinoza
-church an nature on same level
- no free will
Fontenelle
- tried to make sci accessible + entertaining
-Conversations on the plurality of world
Pierre Bayle
skepticism: Historical and Critical dictionary
Marquis di Beccaria
- get ride of torture in law enforcement
Marquis de Condorcet
-progress + equality
Voltaire
- satirist writer who criticized French gov
- freedom
Montesquieu
- Spirit of the Laws
- power balance
Rousseau
-gov should serve ppl
- attack enlightenment, civilization corrupts humanity
Diderot
Editor of Encyclopedia
Locke
-man is good
- natural rights
- education for all
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nation
capitalism
Madame de Geoffrin
salonnier, encylcopedia
Baron Holbach
individualism, free-will
David Hume
limits on reasoning, undermined enlightenment
Immanuel Kant
- science vs morality
Catherine the great
russian czar, overthrew peter
Mendelssohn
called for Jewish rights, enlightenment
Pugachev
said was true czar, killed
Lady Montiquie
-skepticism
- women have lovers
Mary Wolstonecraft
women can own business
William Harvey
described circulation of blood
Emile du Chatelet
scientist, translated newton into French
Andreas Vesalius
anatomist
Margaret Cavendish
scientist and astronomer excluded from Royal society
Mary Astell
- women should have more power + education