historia- scientific revolution
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- rene descartes
- all humans are born with basic ideas and ways of thinking
- johannes kepler
- brahe's assistant: 1. planets orbitals around the sun are elliptical 2. planets dont move at uniform speed 3. orbital time is directly related to distance from sun
- nicolaus copernicus
- planets and stars move around a fixed sun, contradicted aeristolian physics
- law of inertia
- rest is not objects natural state, objects continue in motion forever unless stoped by an outside force, galileo
- voltaire
- imprisoned at young age, glorified science, wanted better individuals and institutions, reformer who challenged church, wanted good monarchs
- rationalsim
- doubt everything that could reasonably be doubted
- david hume
- human mind is only impressions, we can't reason that which we haven't experienced
- denis diderot
- edited the encycolpedia
- isaac newton
- synthesizes explanations to fit movement on earth and in the skies in one theory, law of universal gravitation
- law of universal gravitation
- every body in the universe attracts every other body in the universe in a precise mathematical relationship, newton
- inductive reasoning
- experimentalism, francis bacon
- tycho brahe
- collects a lot of data about 1872's new star, makes kepler's findings possible
- francis bacon
- english politician and writer, knowledge must be obtained through experimentation
- jean-jacques rousseau
- neurotic, emphasized individual freedom, doesn't like civilization, "social contract"
- john locke
- life, liberty, property, ideas come from experience
- deductive reasoning
- rationalism, rene descartes
- montesquieu
- SEPARATION OF POWERS, wrote social satire about outsiders critical views of european culture, studied different types of government that would promote liberty not tyrrany
- empiricism
- inductive reasoning, learn by getting research
- galileo galilei
- uses method of learning and investigating, proves things move until something stops them, expands on copernicus, thinks moon isn't smooth