Enlightenment

2. argued that every person was born with a tabula rasa or blank mind
5. was the most famous philosopher of the later Enlightenment
8. First European to make regular observation of the of the heavens using a telescope.
11. A systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence.
12. A German mathematician, took the next step in destroying the Ptolemaic system.
14. wrote the major work of Mathematical principles of Natural Philosophy and gave the universal law of gravitation
15. A period when philosophers used reason and the scientific method to discover more about human nature

1. Conception of the universe offered a more accurate explanation than did the Ptolemaic system.
3. A native Poland, published his famous book, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres.
4. Descartes's new system , famous work was Discourse on Method
6. English philosopher with a few scientific credentials.
7. Belief the reason is the chief source of knowledge
9. Places Earth in the center of the universe
10. He was a composer that wrote music for the people. His father encouraged him to be a composer. age 6 was his first concert.
13. Someone who studies wisdom, love to study