SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

COPERNICUS (1543)

• Heliocentric Ideas
• Sun centered Universe

KEPLER

• Studies showed that planets revolve around sun.
• Mathematical laws to prove
• Elliptical orbit.

GALILEO GALILEI

• Timed chandelier swing.
• Each pendulum swing was exact same timing.
• Proved objects with different weight
• Fall at same speed.

SIR FRANCIS BACON

• English politician
• English Writer
• Experimental method

RENE DESCARTES

• Analytical geometry
• His theories are still used today.
• "Everything is wrong until proven"

ENLIGHTENMENT

JOHN LOCKE

• Special contract
• Positive view on human nature
• All people are free and equal

VOLTAIRE

• Spent 3 years at Fredrick's Palace
• Disliked the king/kings poetry.

MONTESQUIEU

• Political liberty
• An aristocrat
• A cowler

ROUSSEAU

• Committed to individual freedom
• Wrote essays in Paris that won prizes
• Disagreed with enlightenment thinkers

WOLLSTONECRAFT

• Women rights activist
• Vindication of the rights of women
• Better freedom came from education

HOBBES

• Had been called "lavintian"
• Called the agreement social contract
• Thought government was absolute monarchy.