week 1 Flashcards
Refer to the series of events that led to the emergence of modern science and the progress of scientific thinking across critical periods in history.
intellectual revolution
Refers to the 16th-century paradigm shift named after the Polish mathematician and astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus
is Nicolaus Copernicus’ brief outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the Universe.
Commentariolus (Little Commentary)
sun is the center of the solar system and introduced the idea that the earth rotates on its own
Heliocentric model
Was A 2nd century
Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer, famous for his controversial geocentric theory of the universe
Claudius Ptolemy
Earth is assumed to be at the center of the Solar System.
Geocentric model
was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for contributing to the understanding of evolutionary biology.
Charles Robert Darwin
Is a sustained argument showing the diversity of organisms and their characteristics can be explained as the result of natural process.
On The Origin Of The Species
the process
whereby organism better adapted to their environment
Natural Selection
psychosexual development, libido, and ego.
Psychoanalytic concepts
Austrian neurologist who developed psychoanalysis – a scientific method of understanding inner and outer
sigmund freud