People
invented analytic geometry
Who Is Rene Descartes?
an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church
What is dogma?
known for his geocentric
Who is Ptolemy?
type of divination that involves the forecasting of earthly and human events through the observation and interpretation of the fixed stars
What is astrology?
a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century
What was the Enlightenment?
Discovered that the planets move elliptically rather than circular.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This Greek physician's work dominated the fields of anatomy and physiology for many years.
Who is Galen?
What is astronomy?
starts out with a general statement, or hypothesis, and examines the possibilities to reach a specific, logical conclusion
What is deductive reasoning?
an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from increases in labor and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries.
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
best known for his promotion of the scientific method.
Who is Francis Bacon?
He modernized Prussia
Who is Frederick the Great?
French for "philosophers"
What is Philosophes?
the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.
What is empiricism?
argued that the best way to prevent this was through a separation of powers,
Who was Montesquieu?
formulation of the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Author of the satirical novella 'Candide,' He is widely considered one of France's greatest Enlightenment writers.
Who is Voltaire?
a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.
What is a despot?
an inferential argument for a mathematical statement, showing that the stated assumptions logically guarantee the conclusion.
What is a mathematical proof?
He developed a compact between the individual and a collective “general will” aimed at the common good and reflected in the laws of an ideal state
Who is Rousseau?
revolutionized the study of biology
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
He sparked a criminal justice reform movement when he brought scientific reasoning to bear in the field of crimimal justice.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
He spent 26 years gathering contributions from more than 150 writers on many different topics, to create a 28-volume work.
Who was Denis Diderot?
the sun as the center
What is heliocentric?
He was the Holy Roman Emperor of the Austrian Habsburg dominion from 1765 to 1790. He was the epitome of an enlightened despot.
Who was Joseph II