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Challenged the Ptolemaic model by saying that the solar system was Heliocentric (sun-centered) rather than geo-centric (earth-centered). This model retained the concept of epicycles, but that they were smaller. He was no more accurate than Ptolemy
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(Danish) Rejected the heliocentric model but believed that the planets revolve around the sun and the sun around the earth. He charted many stars
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true Renaissance man in learning and the arts.
Empiricism
attacks scholasticism and promotes experimentation based on the material senses
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Improves the telescope to make observations promoting the Copernican model.
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assistant to Brahe, used his data when he died. Argued mathematically the elliptical orbits of planetary motion. Heliocentric
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Baroque Artist
The Calling of St. Matthew
Commision to promote the Catholic Reformation
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Ceiling of the Banqueting Hall
Charles I commissionit to cemmemorate his father James I. gave Puritans suspicion that Charles had Catholic sympathies -
most original thinker of his time
deeply interested in scientific changes
heavily influenced by the horrors and chaos of the English Civil Wars in the mid-sixteen hundreds
Monarchs, republicans, and Christian thinkers all criticized him for his secular, materially calculating treatment of humans who were viewed as self-servin (evil) by nature -
Painted scenes of French peasant life
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Invented Geometry
Doubted everything, deduced truth by reasoning back to general principles, "i think, therefore I am"
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The Tabernacle
Chair of St. Peter
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Drama, mysticism, and emotion are used to celebrate the Church -
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published a book on astronomy
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Gave Galileo permission to resume discussing the Copernican System
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married the duke of Newcastle to gain access to philosophical circle
Observations upon experimental philosophy
grounds of Natural philosophy
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Refuted dogmatism and skepticism
supported Jansenists
"leap of faith"
Famous wager with skeptics: it is a better bet to believe God exists than not do so. If god exists, the beleiver will gain everything -
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most influential philosopher who put an end to the endorsement of the patriarchal "divine right" model.
Opposite of Hobbes, advocated a SOCIAL CONTRACT in which the ruler is subject to the needs of the people. Conflict comes from tyrannical rulers that may be overthrown.
Two treatises
Letter Concerning Toleration
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rejected the material world in favor of deductive thinking
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Established a basis for physics to last the nezt two centuries explaining planetary motion through calculus
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humans want to maximize pleasure an dminimize pain
to do so, they give up their freedom to an authority to ensure safety in a social contract -
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(Goes for all Royal academies)
held reading of papers, published, creaed libraries and held discussions to share new ideas. Artisans, sailors and workers were sometimes invited for their practical contributions of applied science
Projecors, or individuals interested in selling their technical ideas, expanding scientific learning to a wider public IMPACT! base for Enlightenment -
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husband Gottfriied Kirsch
Discovered a comet in 1702, credited 1930
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Classical in restrained design
Vast, dramatic paintings and murals with Louis as the Sun King
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argues gravity as the cause to motion and advocates for knowledge based on observaiton and empirical experimentation
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because religion is a matter of conscience, each finds his or her own way. Locke's argument for tolerance paved the way for the separation of church and state
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written while in exile in Holland, the first argues against DRK while the second argues humans are goody by nature and come into government to secure life, libertym and property
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humans are born "tabula rasa" or as a blank slate and are shaped by their experiences. thus, human evolution can change if the environment is changed
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Argued that God placed human beings in the world to understand it and turn it to productive practical use through rationality
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Translated Newton's Principia and assisted Voltaire in Scientific work
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