Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution Flashcards

(33 cards)

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Scientists were after_______when enlightenment thinkers were after________.

A

the laws of nature, the laws of government/society

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Thomas Hobbes

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Social Contract

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Social Contract

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Agree to give up a certain amount of freedoms for the government to protect you.

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John Locke

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Empiricism. Gov’s purpose: life,liberty, pursuit of property.

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5
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Tabulo Rosa

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Knowledge obtained through life experiences and senses.

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6
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Natural Rights Empiricism

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The belief that knowledge is innate.

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Voltaire

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Against government censorship. Absolute ruler. Diest

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Diest

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God doesn’t involve himself in our affairs. The clock was wound.

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9
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Montesquieu

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Separation of powers. America 1st country to use

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10
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Rousseau

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Social contract. Believes in human rights

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11
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Justice System

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Believes in executions but has to be humane

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Copernicus

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Published Heliocentric theory

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Newton

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Published law of gravity

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14
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Heliocentric Theory

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Everything revolves around sun

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Vesalius

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Published 1st human anatomy textbook. 1st to dissect human corpses

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16
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Leeuwenhoek

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Observed bacteria through microscope, helped understand diseases

17
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Fahrenheit

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Invents mercury thermometer

18
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Academy of Sciences

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Welcomed scientists

19
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Boyle

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Boyle’s law: Volume increase, pressure decrease

20
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Royal society

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First thing to support science

21
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Torricelli

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Invented barometer

22
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Descartes

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Book discourse on method, set forth official sci. method

23
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Harvey

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How human heart functions:

  1. Pumps
  2. Blood vessels
24
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Innate

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Unleash information, born with it

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Empiricism
Learn through experiences and senses
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Bacon
Scientific Method, empiricism
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Beccaria
Justice system
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Vesalius
Published 1st human anatomy textbook. 1st to dissect human corpses
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Brahe
Discovers new star, Nova, universe if not constant, always changing
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Jansen
Invented microscope
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Kepler
Publishes 1st 2 laws of planetary motion: 1. Proved mathematically that we revolve around the sun 2. We don't go in a full circle;
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Galileo
Published "Starry Messenger". Law of pendulum. Faced inquisition from the church because he supported Descartes
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Law of Pendulum
Transfer of energy, fall at same rate