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Vocabulary CH 18 Flashcards

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Francis Bacon

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inductive thinker who stressed experimentation in arriving at truth

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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posited heliocentric universe in place of geocentric universe

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Deism

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belief that God created the universe and set it in motion to operate like clockwork

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Rene Descarte

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deductive thinker (said I think, therefore I am) who challenged the notion of truth as being derived from tradition

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Enlightenment

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intellectual revolution in which philosophes stressed reason, natural law, and progress in their criticism of social injustices

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Galileo

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Italian scientist who formulated terrestrial laws and modern law of inertia/evidence for Copernican hypothesis

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Laissz faire

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economic concept of Adam Smith: in opposition of mercantilism, urged governments to keep hands of the operation of the economy (left to run in accord with supply and demand)

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Isaac Newton

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formulated law of gravitation

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Philosophes

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social critics of the eighteenth century

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Royal Society of London and French Academy of Sciences

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organized bodies for scientific study

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Tabula Rasa

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concept of the mind as a blank sheet that formulate ideas based on impressions/experience

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Cesare Beccaria

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wrote Crime and Punishment

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Concordet

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Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind

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Denis Diderot

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Encyclopedia

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David Hume

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An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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John Locke

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Two Treatises on Government; Essay on Human Understanding

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Montesquieu

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Spirit of the Laws, Persian Letters

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Rousseau

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Social Contract/Emile

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Adam Smith

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Wealth of Nations

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Voltaire

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Philosophical Letters; Candide

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Aristotelian Ptolemaic cosmology

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geocentric view of the universe that accorded with church teachings and scriptures

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