AP Euro Scientific Revolution

1. “Planets are like people…a lot of mutual attraction.”

1. “There are two types of scientists in this world…ants and bees. Which are you?”

• Bacon

• Descartes

• Galileo

• Brahe

1. “Natural rights to life, liberty, and property”

1. “I invented analytical geometry”

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Descartes

• Newton

“I believed in empiricism and opposed the rationalism of Descartes

• Bacon

• Brahe

• Copernicus

• Pascal

1. “A capable astronomer, I was denied entry into the Berlin Academy”

• Cavendish

• Winkelmann

• Cunitz

• Du chatalet

1. “As a scientist, I argued with the ideas of Descartes and Hobbes and was angered by the Royal Society for not being interested in solving practical problems”

“Humans are naturally selfish and corrupt therefore a social contract must be forged between them and a strong, absolute ruler.

1. “My views on the universe and its rational and mathematical regularity helped to make the Copernican model more believable.”

“I proved, mathematically, that the planets revolve around the sun elliptically.”