Authors
Came up with the heliocentric theory
Who is Copernicus?
a cosmological and planetary theory, in which the Earth occupies the central position of the world system
What is geocentrism?
Pensées
Who is Blaise Pascal?
a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries
What is the Scientific Revolution?
"It is known that man has five Exterior senses, and ever sense is ignorant of each other..."
Who is Cavendish?
Their scientific method was vitalist rather than mechanist
Who is Cavendish?
natural wholes (principally living things) are similar to complicated machines or artifacts
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Who is John Locke?
a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians
What are the English Civil Wars?
"The eternity of things in themselves or in God must still amaze our brief span of life."
Who is Pascal?
Who is Equiano?
to explain the nature of life as resulting from a vital force peculiar to living organisms and different from all other forces found outside living things
What is vitalist?
The Starry Messenger
Who is Galileo Galilei?
a system of government where the ultimate authority to run the state is in the hands of a king, dictator, or monarch who rules by their own right, such as by divine right
What is absolute monarchy?
"The misuse of enlightenment weakens the moral sentiment and leads to hard-heartedness, egoism, irreligion, and anarchy."
Who is Mendelssohn?
Genevan philosopher who was raised by their watchmaker father
Who is Rousseau?
three physical laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it.
What are Newton's Laws of Motion?
What is Enlightenment?
Who is Moses Mendelssohn?
the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688
What is the Glorious Revolution?
"I indeed believe that very few will presume to compare his philosophy in any respect with that of Sir Isaac Netwon."
Reinforced the idea of heliocentrism
Who is Galileo Galilei?
ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics
What is the Enlightenment?
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Who is Isaac Newton?
the commission to reform the calendar and sought advice from experts all over Europe, including Copernicus
What is the Fifth Lateran Council?
"Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole."
Who is Rousseau?