Philosopher And Scientist
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
JOHN LOCKE
- Believed people could learn from experience and improve themselves
- Criticized absolute monarchy and favored the idea of self government
- Published his ideas in 1690, two years after the glorious revolution
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VOLTAIRE
- Published more then 70 books
- Books-political essays,philosophy,history,fiction,and drama
- Often used satire against his opponents
- After his second jail term, he was exiled to England for two years.
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MONTESQUIEU
- Devoted himself to the study of political liberty
- Studied the history of Ancient Rome
- Concluded that rimes collapse was directly related...
- To its loss of the political liberties
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ROUSSEAU
- Worked as an engraver,music teacher,tutor and secretary
- Made his way to Paris and won recognition as a writer if essays
- Believed that the only good government was one that was freely...
- Formed by the people and guided by the "general wall" of society
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COPERNICUS
- Became interested in an old Greek idea that the sun stood...
- At the center of the universe
- Studied planetary for 25 years
- He reasoned that indeed, the stars, the earth,and other plants revolved...
- Around the sun
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KEPLER
- Continued the work I'd brahe's after his death
- Concluded that certain mathematical laws govern planetary
- Proved that Copernicus basic ideas were true
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GALILEI
- Used his beating pulse to carefully time the chardiers swing.
- Each swing of the pendulum took exactly the same amount if time
- Discovered the law of the pendulum
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SIR FRANCIS BACON
- Criticized the way both Aristotle and medieval scholars...
- Arrived at their conclusions.
- Invented the empiricism,or the experimental method
- "Scientist should observe the world and gather information about it first"
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DESCATES
- Developed analytical geometry
- His approach to gaining knowledge differed from bacons
- Descartes relied on mathematics and logic
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