The Scientific Revolution/ The Enlightenment Flashcards
Johannes kepler
Three laws of planetary motion,
Nicolaus Copernicus
On the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, challenged the geocentric view of the universe,
Galileo galilei
Laws of motion and inertia
Francis Bacon
The inductive method,
The inductive method
Begins with direct observation, produces data, systematically recorded and organized, leads to a hypothesis, retest
Rene descartes
The deductive method for the search of truth
Isaac newton
Principia,
Principia
Cmboned Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, galileo’s laws of inertia, and newton’s laws of gravitation in a single formula
The Philosophes
Group of thinkers/writers who espoused enlightened ideas
Deism
God created the world but he lets it run by the natural laws
Voltaire
Prince of the philosophes, intolerant to organized Christianity,
Denis Diderot
The encyclopedia, goal to bring together all of the most current/enlightened thinking
Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws
The spirit of the laws
Create a social science by applying methods of natural sciences to the study of government, ideal government had executive, legislative,a dn judicial branches
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract, a treatise on politics/government, Emile, he foreshadowed the romantic reaction to the Enlightenment
