Improved the telescope and discovered that Copernicus was right, the earth did revolve around the sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
100
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
What is tolerance
100
He said, "Asking the correct question is half of the problem. Once the question is formulated, there remains to be found only proof."
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
Invented this type of math that is used today.
What is Calculus?
100
Believed government with consent of poeple is the foundation of modern democracy.
Who is John Locke
200
Using mathematics formulas, he showed the planet revolved around the sun.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
200
The greatest good for the greatest number.
What is utililtarianism?
200
Said, "Planets don't travel at the same speed but move faster as they approch the sun and slows down as they move away.
Who is Kepler?
200
Francis Bacon came up with this method.
What is the Scientific method?
200
Said that people needed a social contact or a government where people acted on their own self interest. They needed a government to keep them in control.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
300
Brought about new theories concerning Earth place in relation to the sum and planets.
Who is Nicolas Copernicus?
300
A new concept of man, his existence on earth and the place of the earth in the universe.
What is cosmology.
300
Said "I may not agree with a word you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."
Who is Voltaire
300
His sentence was commuted and he was placed on house arrest where he died blind at the age of 78.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
300
Made the first encyclopedie and believed all things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for any one's feelings.
Who is Diderot
400
Developed the Tychonic theory.
Who is Tycho Brache?
400
Application of the methods of science to religion and philosophy.
What is secularism
400
Said "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Who is Rousseau?
400
During this time most Europeans believed the earth was flat.
What is the Middle Ages?
400
Lived from 1737-1809. Wrote Common Sense and came out in 1776.
Who is Thomas Paine
500
Devoted to the studying of political liberty.
Who is Montesquieu
500
Reason is the arbiter of all things
What is rationalism
500
Said, "Copernicus's theory was wrong because it violated scripture."