Ch 7: scientific revolution Flashcards
Empiricism
All knowledge is from experience
Francis bacon
Experimental method science is useful Knowledge is found through research Empiricism The great renewal
Rene Descartes
Discovered coordinate geometry
Cartesian dualism
Cartesian dualism
Thinking substance: mind, spirit, consciousness
Extended substance: everything outside of the mind
I think therefore I am
Cogito ergo sum
Ptolemy
Ptolemaic universe
Spheres move around earth center
The accepted interpretation in medical/early modern times
Copernicus
Proposed heliocentric theory
Questioned/challenged Ptolemy
Tycho Brahe
Built on heliocentric theory but couldn’t prove it mathematically
Johannes Kepler
3 laws of planetary motion
Proved Copernicus mathematically
Said planets move elliptically
Galileo
Made conclusions based on telescope observations
Gravity works equally on objects
Motion in space is different than on earth
Newton
Proved universal laws of motion (gravitation) using mathematics
Unifies previous theories
Newtons laws of motion
1) object at rest stays at rest
2) force=mass * acceleration
3) for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres
By Copernicus
Stars and planets revolve around a forced sun
Principia Mathematica
By newton
Contained 3 laws of motion
Royal Society of London
Group formed by followers of Bacon who conduct experiments and discuss new findings
