Chapter 10

5. first European to make regular observations of the heavens using a telescope
6. became a professor of mathmatics at the University and wrote his major work, mathmatical Principles of Natural Philosophy
10. argued that every perosn was born with tabula rasa or blank mind
11. a system of thought expounded by Rene Descartes based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
12. a native of Poland, published his famous book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly spheres
13. a period philospher believed that they could apply the scientific methid and use reason to explain human nature logically
15. began by thinking and writing about the the doubt and uncertainly that seemed to be everywhere in the cofusion of the seventeenth century

1. someone whos studies wisdom
2. English philosopher with scientific credentials
3. most famous philosophe of the later Enlightment
4. a system of planetary motion that places Earth at the center of the universe
7. was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era
8. the system of the universe proposed in 1543 by Nicolaus Copernicus who argued that the Earth and planets revolve around the sun
9. German mathmatician took the next step in destroying the Ptolemaic system
14. method a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence that was crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world