Renenae
The year he was born
What is 1596?
The year DotM was penned
What is 1631?
A type of reasoning containing two premises and a conclusion
What is a syllogism?
Man whose experiments confirmed Copernicus' heliocentric theory
Who is Galileo Galilei
Also acceptable: Ferdinand Magellan
DOUBLE POINTS FOR BOTH
Descartes' famous maxim
What is Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am)?
The country he moved to in 1628
What is Holland?
The first rule to be followed in quest of truth
What is never accept anything as true that is not known to be true without doubt?
The type of statement premise 1 in the example in the book is
What is universal affirmative?
The first man to propose heliocentricity
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
"a short step from" Descartes' famous maxim
What is Cogito, ergo Deus est (I think, therefore God is)?
The title of his first work
The third rule to be followed in quest of truth
What is conduct thinking by commencing with objects that are the simplest and easiest to know, then ascend little by little to the more complex?
What a syllogism is (either blank or blank)
What is valid or invalid?
Author of the Almagest
Who is Ptolemy?
The author of works that were translated in the sixteenth century
Who is Sextus Empiricus?
His paternal nickname
DOUBLE POINTS FOR BOTH
What is the "father of modern philosophy"
or "father of modern rationalism"
The fourth rule to be followed in quest of truth
What is in every case make enumerations so complete and reviews so general you might be assured you have omitted or overlooked nothing?
The twin pillars of the mathematical model (according to Descartes)
What is deduction and intuition?
Man who worked for eight years to solve the problem of the apparent retrograde motion of the planet Mars
Who is Johannes Kepler?
Things that are evident or manifest to our senses
What is Phenomena?
The school he studied at
What is Jesuit college of La Fleche
The second rule to be followed in quest for truth
What is divide each difficulty under examination into as many parts as possible and necessary to solve it?
The law of immediate inference
What is if all members of a class possess a certain attribute, then a particular member of this class must also possess that attribute?
Who is Arnold Geulincx?
The book Copericus put his heliocentric model in
What is De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium (On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres)?