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26 Cards in this Set
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Galileo's explanation of human nature
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Galileo believed humans acted out of concern for oneself first and others second
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Scientific Revolution
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Religion is not accepted for its theories, great thinkers begin to use logic and reason to make theories for the planets and their rotations
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Elliptical orbits
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an orbit in which one planet crosses the path between another planet and the sun
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Discoveries that inlfuenced the public
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heliocentric universe, planets all rotate at different rates, the further the planet is from the sun the longer the orbit
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Copernicus
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great scientist who discovered that we live in a heliocentric universe
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Ptolemaic model of the universe
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Earth is the center of the universe and all planets revolve around it
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Tycho Brahe
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Danish asronomer that supported a heliocentric universe, and invented instruments to help observe the heavens
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Johannes Kepler
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German astronomer who supported the heliocentric universe and published The New Astronomy which told of his findings of the stars
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Isaac Newton
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Brilliant englishman that discovered gravity, invented calculus to form algorithims to help solve his theories, and published The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy which explained his three laws of physics
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Scientific Method
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A mode of thinking that followed proposing a quesion, finding data to support it, experimenting to see if the data works and publishing your results
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Empiricism
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created by Sir Frances Bacon which was expirmenting in science
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Geocentisism
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The belief that the Earth is the center of the universe
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Heliocentrism
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The belief that the sun is the center of the universe
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Galileo's Contributions
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Invented the telescope to greatly help observe the stars and published the starry messenger and letters on sunspots
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Theory of Mechanism
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Proponents of the new science to explain the world in mechanical metaphors
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Francis Bacon
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Englishman, who was a lawyer, a high royal official, and the author of histories, and moral essays. he is said to be the father of empiricism
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Rene Descartes
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Mathematician who invented analytical geometry, and developed a new method that relied on deduction
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Thomas Hobbes
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Believed that humans were greedy and lived day to day to achieve self satisfaction and were unsocial in most cases
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Bacons Beliefs of Science
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Believed everything true had already been discovered and only required explanation
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Scientific Induction
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Where scientists draw generalzations derived from and tes hypothesis agaisnt empirical observations
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Projectors
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People who sold their ideas to the highest bidder
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Enlightenment
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Period of great thinking and scientific discovery
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Galileos Trial
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Catholic church admits it was wrong in 1992
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Blaise Pascal
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French mathematician who sold his belongings to live a disciplined life made a great effort to reconcile faith in the new science
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Pascals Wager
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Wagered that it is better to believe in God and his mercy than to not to
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Witchcraft
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between 70,000 and 100,000 people were sentenced to death for witchcraft, about 80% of the accused were sinlge women
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