The Renaissance
Early Scientists
Newton & Bacon
Descartes
100
Martin Luther was excommunicated
What happened in the year 1521
100
The theory that the Earth revolves around the sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
100
Isaac Newton was born on this holiday.
What is Christmas?
100
Ideas so perfect that they must be put into our head by God. Includes ideas of unity, infinity, perfection, axioms of geometry, and God
What are innate ideas?
200
An intense interest in human beings
What is Humanism
200
The philosopher who merged the ideas of faith and reason.
Who is Aquinas?
200
Although we remember Newton for contributions to science he actually wrote more about this.
What is theology and/or alchemy?
200
The methods Descartes used during his meditative self-teaching sessions
What is intuition and deduction?
300
Desiderius Erasmus
Who said: "Fools are happier because they do not fear death, aren’t tormented by guilt and have no concern for the future"
300
The philosopher who questioned the existence of indisputable knowledge; believed that human rationality was a weakness.
Who is Michel de Montaigne?
300
Francis Bacon's writing was so brilliant he was accused of this.
What is writing Shakespeare's plays.
300
The belief that the mind and body are separate, but influence one another.
What is dualism/interactionism?
400
Individualism, personal religion, Intense interest in the past, and Anti-Aristotelianism
What are the four themes of Renaissance humanism?
400
Shape, quantity, size, position, motion.
What are primary qualities/objective reality?
400
Francis Bacon firmly believed in this type of reasoning.
What is inductive reasoning?
400
What was the name of the school Descartes graduated from at age 16?
What is La Fleche?
500
Martin Luther
Who said: "“God foresees, purposes and does all things according to His infallible will”
500
Galileo considered human consciousness and psychological experiences to be ________.
What are secondary qualities/subjective reality?
500
Francis Bacon's approach to science would later be called this.
What is positivism?
500
We would later find that animal spirits are actually this
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
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