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What was the Copernicus hypothesis?
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1. The stars appear to be moving as a result from the earth's rotation but actually are unmoving. 2. The universe was unthinkably large or infinite. 3. The earth was just another planet.
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3
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What did Ptolemy achieve?
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allowed astronomers to track the planets with greater precision
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none
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What did Copernicus write?
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
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what did Copey study
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Who was Tycho Brahe?
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built observatory, believed that the sun and planets revolved around the earth and moon though the planets revolved around the sun,
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tycho
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What were the 3 laws made by Kepler?
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1. orbits are elliptical
2. planets don't move at a uniform speed 3. time a planet takes to make its complete orbit is related to its distance from the sun |
1,2,3
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What did Galileo do and write?
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Wrote Dialogue on the Two Chief System of the World in 1632
law of enertia, believed in Copernicus, |
convict
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Newton's Laws? Book?
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Principia Mathematica - book
Law of universal gravitation - everything in the universe attracts everything else in proportion to the quantity of matter and inversely proportional to the square of the distances between them |
apple, clunk
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What did Gresham College do?
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founded by Sir Thomas Gresham, main center of scientific activity
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beakers
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Tell about Francis Bacon and empiricism.
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practical, useful knowledge that brought greater control of the physical environment and made people rich and nations powerful, inductive reasoning
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if all bees are paper and all paper comes from trees then all bees come from ____
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Who created Cartesian Dualism and what was it?
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Descartes, world made of "mind" and "matter"
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be our guest, be our guest, da da dahhh dunh dunh da da
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What did Fontenelle achieve and write?
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wrote Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
tried to make science witty, skeptical bout organized religion |
why did the chick cross the road?
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What 2 books did Locke write?
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Second Treatise of Civil Government
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snore
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What did the philosophes do and what did they write?
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wrote the Encyclopedia, group of intellects
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smarty pants
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How did France lead the way in the Enlightenment?
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1. French was the language of the educated
2. French absolutism and religious orthodoxy remained strong but not too strong 3. French philosophes influential |
1,2,3
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What did the Baron de Montesquieu write?
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The Persian Letters criticizing English practices/beliefs
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Helen Keller
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Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws
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Montesquieu
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ghostly
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Who was Madame du Chatelet?
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studied philosophe stuff, suffered cuz of gender but thought that they had potential
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"Girl power, equalization between the sexes."
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What was important about Voltaire?
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loved England, hated religious intolerance, praised enlightened monarchs
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j.k....
rowling |
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Who edited the Encyclopedia and say stuff bout it?
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Diderot, criticized basically everything
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i can think of a few examples...
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What's deism?
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reason should be the basis of belief in God, rejected organized religion
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beaubassione
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What did Rousseau write?
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The Social Contract
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sign
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What was Pugachev's Rebellion?
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revolted gainst Catherine the Great, slaughtered, Catherine decided not to free the serfs
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bad, bad, bad, bad boys...
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When was the War of the Austrian Succession?
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1748
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