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Details Title: AP World Description: Notes starting 1-30-04 Total Flash Cards: 10 Created: 01/30/2004 08:52:25	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term 3 Revolutions Definition Industrial French/American Enlightenment Term Isaac Newton Definition father of scientific revolution, key to enlightenment, leads to reason Term John Locke Definition *Father of the Enlightenment '2nd Treatise on Government' 'An Essay on Human Understanding' -said vital differences between animal and man is ability to reason and instinct -humans born with blank slate, environment Term Condorcet Definition French philosophe, 1794 wrote 'The Progress of the Human Mind' about the last 100 years, "we ain't seen nothing yet" Term Carolus Linneaus Definition scientist/philosophe binomial nomenculture (genus species etc.) perfect system, unchanged, merely added to Term Joseph Black Definition Scotsmen scientist/philosphe decides to find out what air is made out of 'grandfather of chemistry' Term Antoine Lavoisier Definition French scientist/philosphe, picks up on Black's work, 'father of chemistry' Term Laplace Definition French philosophe/scientist mathemetician & scientist figured out how entire solar system worked sun=comprised of gas, one day will go dark and Earth will pull off of its orbit Term Benjamin Franklin Definition only American Enlightenment person "Fish and visitors stink after 3 days" 'Poor Richard's Almanac' paris loved him bifocals, Franklin stove, KITE->ELECTRICITY Term Francois Quesnay Definition pure philosphe biologist, medical doctor, known today for views on economics, leader of group called physiocrates