The Ancients
Acheulean hand-axes were used for this purpose
No one knows!
Is magic separate from religion?
No! Often syncretic
Coined the de-differentiation thesis
Edgar Zilsel
If you like breaking things down and categorizing them, you might be a...
scholastic
This man can be best understood as a "herald" of science
Francis Bacon
If you were "sanguine," it meant you had too much of this humor
Is magic separate from science?
No! They often borrowed from each other
Theory of history in which "great men" are the prime movers and shakers
Great Man Theory of History
Nova means
"novelty," the stars themselves were novelties
This man is remembered as the "Christ of Science"
Galileo Galilei
This man asked why China didn't have a Scientific Revolution
Joseph Needham
This doctrine means that every herb bears some sign of its medicinal value
Doctrine of Signatures
When was the term "scientific revolution" coined?
1930s
Location of the mythic Pillars of Hercules
Strait of Gibraltar
This man published detailed anatomical illustrations
Vesalius
Paper money, toilet paper, novels, rockets, and steel bridges are just some of this civilization's inventions
China
This man ordered hermetic texts to be translated before texts from Plato and Aristotle
Cosimo de Medici
The three steps of the de-differentiation theory
Aristotelian scholars provided logic, mathematics & knowledge of ancient texts + literary humanists provided tradition of letters + artist engineers provided ideal of step-wise, technical improvement and progress
The seven liberal arts of the Medieval undergraduate curriculum
trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic); quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy)
This man published detailed illlustrations of what he found under a microscope
Robert Hooke
We get the word "algebra" from this man
Al-Jaber
"Nullius verba" means what
"nothing in words," Royal Society of London motto and a means to get away from the old magical "Power of Words" doctrine
Five factors that lead to the rise of science according to Zilsel
rise of capitalism, rise of individualism, marginalization of universities, rapid technological progress, spirit of commercial rationality
Three "new worlds"
World of the body, world of the stars, world of the infinitely small, etc [feel free to coin your own here!]
This man, among other things, created a perfected telescope using parabolas which is still in use today
Isaac Newton