Chapter 10

4. A period when philosphers believed that they could apply the scientific method and use reason to explain human narutre logically.
6. He was the first European to make regular observations of the heavens using telescope.
8. An English philospher with few scientific credentials.
10. Locke argued that every person was born with a tabularasa,or mland mind.
12. A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment;a scholar or thinker
13. Rousseau argued that people had adopted laws and government.
14. Method A systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence that was crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world.

1. a system of though expounded by Rene` Descates based on the belief that reason is chief souurce of knowledge.
2. He ended with a philosphy that dominated Western though until the twentieth century.
3. Earth-centered; a system of planetary motion that places Earth at the center of the unvierse,woth the sun,moon,and otehr planets revolving around it.
5. Sun-centered; the system of the universe propuosed in 1543 by Nicolaus Copernicus.
7. Newton A person defined the three laws of motion that govern planetary bodies.
9. A native of Poland, plublisher of famouds book, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres.
10. A German mathematician helped in destroying the Ptolemaic system.
11. Was one of most influential in the classical era