Scientists I
Developed the three laws of motion
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Theory that planets revolve around the sun
What is heliocentricity?
Father of empiricism
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
Invented analytic geometry
Who is Rene Descartes?
Allowed for mass production of texts
What is the printing press?
Invented the three laws of planetary movement
Who is Johannes Kepler?
Made a mathematical model of the universe with the Earth at the center
Who is Ptolemy?
The three natural rights according to John Locke
What are life, liberty, and property?
Developed the scientific method
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
Define coffeehouse
a place where people could talk freely and openly about nation discourses
Who is Albertus Magnus?
Observed a supernova and comet
German philosopher and one of the most influential enlightenment thinkers who came up with the categorical imperative
Who is Immanuel Kant?
Translated Thucydide's 'History of the Peloponnesian War' to English
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Explain Salon culture
European social and intellectual gatherings for people to discuss art, literature, philosophy, music, and politics.
Published 'On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies'
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
Forced Galileo Galilei to recant his support of the Copernican heliocentricity theory
What is the church?
Define the tabula rasa
The blank slate theory that says through experience the mind is able to gradually build complex ideas by combining simple ideas derived from sensory experience through reflection
Published 'Discourse on Methods'
Who is Rene Descartes?
Edited the encyclopedie
Who is Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert?
What makes the Keplerian telescope different?
Made with a convex eye piece and allows for a wider field of vision
Albertus Magnus was the guide and master of this person
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
Define radical skepticism
Radical doubt derived certain truths such as one's own existence. It begins with the idea that we know little or nothing about the external world.
Define the categorical imperative
An unconditional principle that requires people to act rationally and respect the humanity of others
Edited the encyclopédie
Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert?