Newton
How did Galileo's observations about the sky disagree with ideas of Aristotle and Ptolemy?
He realized that the earth went around the sun; the sun did not go around the earth.
What do Philosophers think about?
ideas
commomwealth
According to Locke, by natural law, humans have the right to seek what four things?
Life, health, liberty, and possesions
If universal laws governed the universe and people, what else could they govern?
crops and animals
What do we call the method where a person carefully observes the world and then tries to make a theory that will explain these observations?
The scientific method
What do economists think about?
Money and how it works
Where did Locke go during Charles II return to England?
According to Locke, what should people in a country come together to draw up?
contracts that give certain people power to govern
If farmers obeyed universal laws of farming, how would their crops and animals improve?
larger crops and healthier animals
What did Isaac Newton agree with: the ideas of Plato and Aristotle or ideas of Galileo and Copernicus?
What do political philosophers think about?
the ways countries are governed
When did Locke return to England?
When Mary and William took the throne
What "period" in time is this known as
Period of enlightenment
What happened to a field when wheat was planted there year after year
less grain, because minerals in soil used up
What is the name Newton gave to the force of pulled the apple toward the ground?
gravity
What connections did philosophers, economists, and political philosophers start to make between Newton's universal laws and the actions of people?
If universal laws govern objects, then maybe universal laws govern people too. If these laws could be discovered, life would not be so mysterious.
Laws passed by parliament
Locke thinks the government should have how many parts?
3
What kind of crop rotation did Lord Charles Townsend invent?
a 4 year rotation where farmers planted
1)wheat
2)turnips
3)barley or oat
4)clover
What did Newton's new rules, the "laws of ______" show about motions and actions in the universe?
They seemed to show that every motion and action in the universe had a law to govern int.
According to Newton's ideas, how was the universe like a machine?
the universe always worked in the same way.
Two Treatises of Government
What should each part do?
make laws, enforce laws, fight wars with other countries
Since farmers had more grain and more cattle food, what could they afford to do?
keep larger herds of cattle alive all year round This meant they could eat meat any time of the year