Chapter 14 People
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- Marlowe
- set model for character, poetry, and style
- Bacon
- divided philosophers into 'men of experiment' and 'men of dogmas', supporter/developer of empiricism
- Kepler
- abandoned Copernican concept of circular orbits
- Spinoza
- wrote 'Ethics', appeared to support Pantheism (everything is in God)
- Hobbes
- said that because people want everything and are equal, there is enmity (humans are self-centered)
- Dante
- wrote the Divine Comedy
- Descartes
- invented analytic geometry, emphasized deduction and rational speculation
- Locke
- said that there are no innate moral norms, opposed absolutism
- Galileo
- wrote 'Dialogues on the two Chief Systems of the World', supported Copernican theory
- Milton
- wrote 'Paradise Lose', tracts in defense of the right to divorce and freedom of the press
- Hals
- Dutch Baroque portrait painter
- Purcell
- English composer who wrote 'Dido and Aeneas' and 'The Fairy Queen'
- Brahe
- opposed Copernicus' ideas but had most accurate observations for centuries
- Van Dyck
- Flemish, court painter in England, did portrait and etching
- Monteverdi
- Italian composer, violinist, and singer who wrote the first dramatically viable opera, 'Orfeo'
- Pascal
- allied with Jansenists, said that reason and science were useless in religion
- Bunyun
- wrote 'Pilgrim's Progress'
- Velasquez
- Spanish painter at the court of Philip IV (baroque and portraiture), masterpiece is Las Meninas
- Cervantes
- His 'Don Quixote' satirized chivalric romance
- Newton
- wrote 'Principia Mathematica', criticized rationalism
- Rubens
- Flemish Baroque painter who painted large women
- Copernicus
- wrote 'On the Revolutions of Heavenly Shperes', heliocentric view rather than geocentric
- Moliere
- French writer and playwright who was big on comic satire