Scientists
Philosophers
Definitions
Background
Potpourri
100
Created the scientific method to test scientific theories
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
100
Believed that the government should protect the people's rights through a social contract
Who is John Locke?
100
This theory states that the Earth is the center of the universe and that the planets and sun all revolve around the Earth.
What is Geocentric?
100
Believed that the ideas of a geocentric universe in which the planets revolve around the Earth
Who is Ptolemy and/or Aristotle?
100
The job of the legislative branch is to
What is make the laws?
200
Improved the microscope and discovered cells
Who is Robert Hooke?
200
Believed that scientific theory can be proven using mathematics
Who is Rene Descartes?
200
An unwritten agreement between the people and their government.
What is a social contract?
200
The scientific revolution takes place here
Where is Europe?
200
Galileo was tried for heresy because he argued that
What is the Earth revolving around the sun?
300
Discovered gravity and created the three laws of motion
Who is Sir Issac Newton?
300
Believed that separation of powers made government better because it stops any one part of government from becoming too powerful
Who is Baron Montesquieu?
300
A government structure that has three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial
What is separation of powers?
300
Most of the scientific knowledge of Greece and Rome was preserved by
Who were the Jews and Arabs in the Islamic Empire?
300
The theory that the sun is the center of the universe and that all the planets revolve around it.
What is Heliocentric?
400
Believed conduction experiments was correct way to achieve scientific knowledge
Who is Galileo Galilei?
400
Believed that Christianity and reason could work together
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
400
A period of time from the 1500's to the 1700's in which many scientific advances changed peoples traditional beliefs about science
What is the scientific revolution?
400
This philosophical thinker is known as the founder of modern rationalism.
Who is Rene Descartes?
400
Thomas Hobbes felt that all people were born
What is violent and selfish?
500
Proved Ptolemy's geocentric theory incorrect and that the planets revolve around the sun
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
500
Believed that natural law meant people needed strong rulers to tell them what to do
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
500
A period of time in which a European philosophical movement developed, based on reason and experience rather than on traditional thinking.
What is the enlightenment?
500
Classical thinkers such as the ancient Greeks and Romans based their scientific conclusions on
What is common sense?
500
The law that states that gravitation holds the solar system together was put forth by
Who is Sir Issac Newton
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