Enlightened Thinkers
Ouch, I was hit in the head with an apple... I blame the moon!
Who is Isaac Newton?
Renaissance writers called this era of history the "Dark Ages" because it was the period after the fall of Western Rome.
What is the Middle Ages?
The telescope invented by Isaac Newton.
What is the reflecting telescope?
The father of Modern Philosophy.
Who is Rene Descartes?
Who is Plato and Aristotle?
The most important Scholastic Thinker. Author of the Summa Theologica
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
Name the scientist who had to go on trial for asserting that the sun was the center of the solar system.
Who is Galileo?
The main discovery of Nicolaus Copernicus.
What is the sun being the center of the solar system or heliocentrism?
Monks who would teach and learn about Christian theology.
What is Scholasticism?
Thomas Hobbes's Book.
What is the Leviathan?
Ugh... life is nasty, brutish, and short...
Name the monarch who's head was cut off after the English Civil Wars.
Who is King Charles I?
Who is Tycho Brahe?
Descartes famous phrase about reasoning.
Isaac Newton's book.
What is the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
Ahh ughh ughh... L'état c'est moi!
Who is King Louis XIV?
The event that kicked James II off the throne and strethened Parliament's power in England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
The scientist who realized that planet's orbits were "imperfect" or non-circular.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
The agreement between the people and their rulers.
What is the Social Contract?
Rene Descartes's Book
What is Discourse on Method?
The universe does change... and the Earth and Sun are in the middle of the solar system!
Who is Tycho Brahe?
Some Christians begin leaving the Catholic Church and destorying statues of the Saints.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Name one of the laws of motion.
1. object in motion stays or rest unless acted upon
2. the acceleration of an object depens on the forcea applied and mass of the object.
3. every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
The main natural rights promoted by John Locke.
John Locke's book
What is Concerning Human Understand?
I Understand! - Mr. K