Chapter 14 Name That Noun
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19407120 | Locke | defender of the rights of people against absolute power | |
19407121 | Misogyny | term meaning hatred of women | |
19407122 | Galilei | wrote Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems | |
19407123 | Brahe | preceded Kepler, believed the moon and sun revolved around the earth, produced a vast body of astronomical data | |
19407124 | Descartes | wrote Discourse on Method, believed in a deductive scientific method | |
19407125 | deferent | larger circle around which an epicycle moved | |
19407126 | Hobbes | wrote Leviathan | |
19407127 | Royal Society of London | English institute of sharing founded in 1660 | |
19407128 | Jansenist | 17th century Catholic opponents of the Jesuits | |
19407129 | Scientific Revolution | process that established the new view of the universe | |
19407130 | Enlightenment | 18th century movement which emphasized modern practical achievements of knowledge, religious toleration and liberty | |
19407131 | Hotel Dieu | public hospital near Paris that trained midwives | |
19407132 | casuistry | arguments used to minimize and excuse sinful acts | |
19407133 | Harvey | discovered the circulation of blood | |
19407134 | Earl of Shaftesbury | organized a rebellion against Charles II, forced to flee to Holland | |
19407135 | Galilei | first turned the telescope on the heavens | |
19407136 | Winkelmann | discovered a comet, denied the right to continue work after the death of her husband because of his gender | |
19407137 | scientist | term coined in the 1830s for those devoted to natural philosophy | |
19407138 | Queen Christina of Sweden | engaged Descartes to provide regulations for new science academy | |
19407139 | Locke | most influential political thinker of the 17th century | |
19407140 | Ptolemy | believed in geocentrism | |
19407141 | Newton | wrote the Principia | |
19407142 | Kepler | believed in a heliocentric universe and elliptical orbits of planets | |
19407143 | empiricism | use of experiments and observations to formulate a theory | |
19407144 | Bacon | champion of the inductive method of gaining knowledge |