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hegemony
dominance, control, supremacy
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geocentric
the theory that earth is the center of the universe and all objects revolve around it
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heliocentric
the theory that the sun is the center of the universe and all objects revolve around it
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quixotic
fanciful, silly, impractical
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scientific method
- a new approach to the acquisition of knowledge
- 1) hypothesis
- 2) experimentation
- 3) new hypothesis
- associated with sir francis bacon
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empirical
evidence; that which is supported by facts
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prince henry the navigator
- prince of portugal who financed many voyages in the 1300s
- -school of navigation
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fransisco pizarro
conquistador of incan empire in mexico
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johannes kepler
- student of brache
- -used math to prove heliocentric theory of copernicus
- -elliptical orbits
- -3 planetary laws
- new astronomy
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diaz
- portugal
- cape of good hope
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vasco de gama
- portugal
- eastern sea route to india
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cabral
- portugal
- east coast of brazil
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columbus
- spain
- looking for a western passage to asia/america
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balboa
- spain
- accidentally found pacific ocean
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cortez
conquistador of aztecs
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ferdinand magellan
- spain
- circumnavigate the world
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vesalius
- "father of modern anatomy"
- -on the fabric of the human body
- (book on dissections of human bodies with illustrations)
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margaret cavendish
- 17th century female scientist
- involved in crucial scientific debates
- -observations upon experimental philosophy
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issac newton
- "symbol of western influence"
- -calculus
- -gravity
- -universal science
- -principia
- -optics
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scientific revolution
- astronomy and anatomy
- -new intellectual freedom for artisans and scientists
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william harvey
- first major work on circulatory system
- -on the motion of the heart and blood
- -arteries and vein systems
- -proved the heart pumped blood and oxygenated
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spinoza
- excomunicated for rejecting judaism
- believed everyting had a RATIONAL explaination
- -a political treatise
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pascal
- sought to keep religion and science united
- -pensees (thoughts)
- -showed religion was not contrary to reason
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descartes
- "father of modern rationalism"
- -cortesian split between mind/matter or mind/body
- -deductive reasoning
- -analytic geometry
- -episemology method
- -discourse on method
- -physical and spiratual; i think therefore i am
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bacon
- inductive reasoning
- empiricism
- -systematic observations and experiments derived from general concepts that could be tested and verified
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maria winkelmann
discovered a comet
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mercantilism
- trading
- triangular trade
- MALTHUS
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joint stock corporations
- british and dutch east india companies
- INVESTMENTS
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malacca
goa
spice islands, reached by de gama
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encomienda
queen isabella declared indians subjects of spain, settlers had the power to use them as slaves
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price revolution
- golden years of spain from gold and silver pouring in from the new world
- -inflation due to bullion
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west indies
- spice islands
- reached by de gama
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galileo galilei
- heliocentrism
- telescope
- -starry messenger
- -dialogue concerning the two chief world systems
- "but it does move"
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triangular trade
europe-africa-americas
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royal society
french academy
created to help accelerate communications and scientific thought
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treaty of tordesailles
- pope interveined between spain and portuagal and split the world
- -portuguese kept africa and eastern sea route
- -spain got all possessions to the west
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giordano bruno
spanish priest who was burned at the stake for heresy when he supported copernicus
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ptolemy
- ancient cartographer
- geocentric theory
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aristarchus
- ancient astronomer
- heliocentric theory
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galen
- roman doctor
- blood does not circulate
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leeqenhoek
- lense grinder
- microscope
- bacteria
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jenner
- -inquiry into the cause and effect of vaccine
- first vaccine
- smallpox
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