chapter 10

5. was truly a child prodigy.
6. a native of poland, published his famous book, on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.
7. he became a professor of mathematics at the university and wrote his major work, mathematical principles of natural philosophy
8. a period when philosophers used reason and the scientific method to discover more about human nature.
10. it places earth at the center of the universe
12. a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence
13. a german mathematician, took the next step in destroying the ptolematic system.
15. the system of the universe proposed in 1543 by nicolaus copernicus who argued the earth that the earth and planets revolove around the sun.

1. a system of thought expounded by rene descartes based on the belief that the reason is the chief source of knowledge.
2. intellectuals of the enlightenment were especially influenced by the ideas of two seventeenth century english men.
3. the most famous philosophe of the later enlightenment.
4. was an english philosopher with few scientific credentials.
9. the first european to make regular observations of the heavens using a telescope.
11. he began by thinking and writing about the doubt the doubt and uncertainty that seemed to be everywhere in the coonfusion of the seventeenth cetury.
14. a person who loves to study