The Western Experience, 10th Edition (Chambers)

Chapter 16: Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution

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scientific revolution
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epicycles
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epistemology
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induction
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skepticism
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Neostoicism
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Baroque
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Classicism
A)Philosophy that questions whether human beings can ever achieve certain knowledge.
B)Ornate style of art, music, literature, and architecture that emerged in the seventeenth century, characterized by an emphasis on grandeur, power, drama, and rich color.
C)A movement in the arts that seeks to recapture the style and the subjects associated with ancient Greece and Rome.
D)The succession of discoveries and the transformation of the investigation of nature that was brought about in the fields of astronomy, physics, and anatomy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
E)Theory of how one obtains and verifies knowledge or truth.
F)In traditional astronomy, small circular orbits, revolving around the main circular orbit, that planets follow as they move through the sky.
G)A sixteenth- and seventeenth-century school of philosophy dedicated to the revival of moral values, such as calmness, self-discipline, and steadfastness, first advanced by the Stoics in ancient Greece and Rome.
H)Starting with observation, the logical process by which one moves to general principles.
Chambers, The Western Experience, 10th Edition
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