Enlightenment

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  1. 3. Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
  2. 10. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.
  3. 14. Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe
  4. 15. René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day.
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  1. 1. John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"
  2. 2. Someone who studies wisdom, loves to study
  3. 4. a period when philosophers believed that they could apply the scientific method and use reason to explain human nature logically
  4. 5. having or representing the earth as the center, as in former astronomical systems.
  5. 6. Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion
  6. 7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century.
  7. 8. Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. He played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century
  8. 9. a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
  9. 11. a method of procedure for science, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
  10. 12. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
  11. 13. He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music.