Scientific Revolution Of Enlightenment
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
NiCHOLAS COPERNICUS
- Studied planetary movements more than 25 years
- Believed the universe revolved around the sun
- He did not publish his finding until the last year of his life
JOHANNES KEPLER
- Continued Corpernicus' work
- Concluded that certain mathematical laws govern motion
- One of the laws showed that the planets revolved around the sun elliptically
GALILEO GALLEI
- Timed chandler swings
- Discovered the law if the pendulum
- Discovered that a falling object accelerates
- Successfully built his own teloscope
SIR FRANCIS BACON
- Helped to develop the scientific method
- Wrote that scientists should observe the world then gather information
- Developed the approach called empirisim or the experimental method
RENÈ DESCARTES
- Spent time studying philosophy and medicine
- In 1637 he published geometry
- The most important contribution he made were his philosophical writings
- Described the universe in the terms of motion and matter
JOHN LOCKE
- English philosopher and physician
- Thought of as one of the most influential of enlightment thinkers
- Known as the father of liberalism
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VOLTAIRE
- French englighment writer
- Historian and philosopher
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MOSTESQUIE
- Argued danger could be prevented
- Two most important works were Persian letters and spirit of the laws
- Used an account to explain how governments could be preserved from corruption
- He discovered the theory of separation
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ROUSSEAU
- His point in philosophy was negative
- He believed that human beings are born to be close to nature
- Big supporter of education
- Composer of the 18th century.
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WOLLSTONECRAFT
- Advocate of women's right
- First great feminist
- First publication was the education of her daughters
- Best known for her "vindication of the rights of women"
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