Unit 4 ppl quiz Flashcards
Copernicus
-created heliocentric model
-Revolutions of Heavenly spheres
Brahe
astronomer who made own observatory
Kepler
laws on motion of planets with math
Royal society
promoted scientific research
thomas paine
- Age of Reason and common sense
-deism + progress
Francis bacon
- inductive reasoning
- father of empiricism
Descartes
- math
- father of cartesian dualism(deductive reasoning)
Spinoza
-church an nature on same level
- no free will
Fontenelle
- tried to make sci accessible + entertaining
-Conversations on the plurality of world
Pierre Bayle
skepticism: Historical and Critical dictionary
Marquis di Beccaria
- get ride of torture in law enforcement
Marquis de Condorcet
-progress + equality
Voltaire
- satirist writer who criticized French gov
- freedom
Montesquieu
- Spirit of the Laws
- power balance
Rousseau
-gov should serve ppl
- attack enlightenment, civilization corrupts humanity
Diderot
Editor of Encyclopedia
Locke
-man is good
- natural rights
- education for all
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nation
capitalism
Madame de Geoffrin
salonnier, encylcopedia
Baron Holbach
individualism, free-will
David Hume
limits on reasoning, undermined enlightenment
Immanuel Kant
- science vs morality
Catherine the great
russian czar, overthrew peter
Mendelssohn
called for Jewish rights, enlightenment