People of the Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution Flashcards

(34 cards)

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Copernicus

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On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres

First to believe Heliocentric theory

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Brahe

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Collected Data that disproved Geocentric theory despite believing in it himself

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Kepler

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3 laws of planetary motion

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Galileo

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Dialogue between two chief world systems (jargon)
Starry messenger (vernacular)
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Paracelsus

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Father of modern medicine

“Like Cures Like”

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Vesalius

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Father of modern anatomy

On the fabric of the human body

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William Harvey

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On the Motion of Heart and Blood

Heart is the center of the body

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Robert Boyle

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First controlled expirement

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Antione Laviosie

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Father of Chemistry
Element naming system
Law of Conservation of matter

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Cavendish

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Observations upon Experimental Philosophy

Grounds of Natural Philosophy

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Maria Merian

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Metamorphosis on the Insects of Surinam

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Winkleman

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Discovered a comet

difficulties at the Berlin Academy

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Descartes

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Discourse on Method, Deductive Reasoning, Dualism

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Bacon

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The Great Instauration, Inductive reasoning

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15
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Pascal

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Pensees,

religion and science separate

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Spinoza

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Ethics demonstrated in the Geometric Manner

Science is the purist form of religion

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Locke

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Two Treatise’s on Government

Essay concerning Human understanding (tabla rasa)

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Newton

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Principia
Newtonian world machine
Invented calculus

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Fontenelle

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Plurality of the worlds (disguised as a romance novel)

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Bayle

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Historical and Critical Dictionary

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Cook

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Travels - Cultural Relativism

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Montesquieu

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Spirit of the Laws (separation of powers)

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Voltiare

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Essays on the English (criticized Catholic Dogma)

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Smith

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Wealth of Nations (challenged mercantilism)

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Condorcet
Progress of the Human mind (10 stages) | Church was Evil
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Bercarria
On crimes and Punishment (against arbitrary punishments)
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Rosseau
Social Contract (popular Soverignty) On the origin of mankind Emile
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Quesnay
Leader of the Physiocrats, Lassie-faire
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Mary Astell
Mother of Feminism A serious Proposal to the Ladies Some reflections on marriage
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Wollstonecraft
Vindication of the Rights of women
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David Hume
A treatise of Human Nature
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Holbach
The system of Nature
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Zinzendorf
Monrovian Brethren | "He who wishes to comprehend God with his mind becomes an athiest"
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Jhon Wesley
Father of Methodism