What supposedly fell from the sky, inspiring his ideas of gravity?
An apple
100
What is Descartes most famous saying?
I think therefore I am.
100
Who had his head severed?
Descartes
200
What was the focus of the Renaissance
What is human-centered
200
What is the main idea of the Ptolemaic system?
The planets revolve around the earth
200
What profession did his mother hope he would do in life?
Farming
200
What did Descartes think controlled reflexes? What did it end up really being?
Animal Spirits, Cerebral fluids
200
Who was never married?
Isaac Newton
300
What was one of the reasons why the church fell?
What is Aquinas acceptance of reason, the work of humanists, or the invention of metal movable type.
300
Who was a Platonist?
Kepler
300
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newton's first book title, is latin for what?
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
300
Was Descartes a vitalist, materialist, phenomenologist, dualist, or some combination? What was the specific name of his view?
Dualist, Interactionism
300
Whose approach to science was later termed positivism?
Frances Bacon
400
What are the four major themes of humanism?
What is individualism, personal religion, intense interest in the past, and anti-aristotelisim.
400
Why was Copernicus' "The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" immediately not condemned by the church?
Because it was meant to aide in creating a new calendar
400
The belief that God created the universe but then "let it be," which became very popular after Newton's theories is called what?
Deism
400
Where did Descartes believe the mind was located? Where did it communicate with the body?
Located anywhere because it was non physical. Communicated with the body in the pineal gland
400
Who thought it was fine to sleep with the help if your wife wasn't putting out?
Martin Luther
500
Describe one of the four major themes
What is individualism, personal religion, intense interest in he past, and anti-aristotelisim.
500
What are included in Galileo's "primary qualities"?
quantity, shape, size, position, and motion or rest
500
“If I have seen further it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.” This quote from Isaac Newton refers to which three scientists who came before him?
Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo
500
What were the 5 innate ideas Descartes believed in?
Unity, Infinity, Perfection, Axioms of Geometry, and God