THE RENAISSANCE

3. the concern for human potential and acheivement
4. the reformation, 95 theses, denial of free will, protestantism
10. proposed heliocentric universe
12. wanted to explain true mathematical reality, used scientific observations to exemplify laws, objective and subjective reality,
13. God had granted humans a unique position in the universe
14. Hermetism, burned at the stake at Campo di Fiore

1. loved to point out mistakes in classics
2. proposed extreme form of Skepticism, rejected science as a mean of gaining knowledge
5. Science should be based on induction rather than deduction, insisted that scientists avoid bias
6. accepted heliocentric position, very mathematically based
7. geocentric system of the universe
8. many say his writings mark the beginning of the Renaissance. He was concerned with freeing the human spirit from the confines of medieval times.
9. saw the universe as a complex, lawful, machine that was set in motion and created by God, law of gravity
11. relied on self-exploration, “I think, therefore, I am”, combination of intuition and deduction, was a rationalist, a nativist, and a phenomenologist