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Chapter 14 New Directions in Thought and Culture in the 16 th and 17 th Century

Chapter 14 New Directions in Thought and Culture in the 16 th and 17 th Century. The Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution. 17 th Century Spans the lifetimes of Galileo and Newton “The Age of Enlightenment” Was it a “revolution?”. Nicolaus Copernicus. 1473-1543 Polish

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Chapter 14 New Directions in Thought and Culture in the 16 th and 17 th Century

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  1. Chapter 14 New Directions in Thought and Culture in the 16th and 17th Century The Scientific Revolution

  2. The Scientific Revolution • 17th Century • Spans the lifetimes of Galileo and Newton • “The Age of Enlightenment” • Was it a “revolution?”

  3. Nicolaus Copernicus • 1473-1543 • Polish • On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)

  4. Galileo Galilei • 1564-1642 • Italian The Trial of Galileo

  5. Sir Isaac Newton • 1642-1727 • English • Principia Mathematica(1687)

  6. Francis Bacon • 1561-1626 • English philosopher • Father of “Empiricism”

  7. René Descartes • 1596-1650 • French philosopher • Discourse on Method (1637) • “Cogito ergo sum.”

  8. Thomas Hobbes • 1588-1679 • English political philosopher • Leviathan (1651)

  9. John Locke • 1632-1704 • First and Second Treatise of Government • English political philosopher

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