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deductive thinking |
- type of thinking that starts with accepted definitions, general propositions, and then discovers what further knowledge that may be logically deduced from the accepted truths |
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inductive thinking |
- type of thinking that finds the truth at the end, after a long process of investigation, experiment, and intermediate thought |
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empirical evidence (method) |
- source of knowledge gained by means of observation or experimentation |
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Ptolemy |
- Greek astronomer |
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Scientific Revolution |
- process that established the new universe |
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Copernicus |
- Polish priest and astronomer |
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(Tycho) Brahe |
- Danish astronomer |
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(Johannes) Kepler |
- Brache's assistant |
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Galileo |
- Italian mathematician and natural philosopher |
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Principia Mathematica |
- also known as "The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
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(Issac) Newton |
- identified the cause of planetary motion |
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Francis Bacon |
- Englishmen of almost universal accomplishment |
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Rene Descartes |
- gifted mathematician who invented analytic geometry |
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Discourses on Method |
- rejected scholastic philosophy, education, and advocated thought founded on a mathematical model |
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Thomas Hobbes |
- English political philosopher |
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John Locke |
- proved to be the most influential philosophical and political thinker of the 17th century |
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Treatises of Government |
- John Locke rejects the argument for absolute government that based political authority on the patriarchal model of fathers ruling over a family |
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Margaret Cavendish |
- wife of the duke of Newcastle; marriage brought her to know a group of natural philosophers |
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Blaise Pascal |
- French mathematician and a physical scientist |
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Baroque Art |
- style associated with 17th century paintings, sculptures, and architecture |
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Bernini |
- designed and oversaw the construction of a great tabernacle that stands beneath St. Peter's Bascilica's towering dome |
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Peter Paul Rubens |
- hired by king Charles I of England to decorate the ceiling of Banqueting Hall at his palace in London with paintings commemorating his father, James I |
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Witches |
- believed to attend mass meetings known as sabbats |
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Caravaggio |
- most famous Baroque artist |
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres |
• written by Copernicus |
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Leviathan |
- written by Thomas Hobbes - the authors attempt to philosophically justify the necessity for a strong central authority by tracing all psychological processes to bare sensation and regard all human motivations as egotistical and intended to increase pleasure and minimize pain |