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SSFT Midterm MarshRobert Grosseteste - answer-known as big head bob
-wrote treaties in geometry, astronomy, and optics
-used empirical method to study lenses
-spherical lenses
-Taught Roger Bacon
Jean Buridan - answer-Helped develop impetus theory
-developed a scheme within the Aristotelian system to explain the motion of a projectile
after it had left the projector BUT that had problems with Aristotle too
- thus not exactly an early form of the modern concepts of impetus and inertia given the
reliance on Aristotelian causation rather than more careful experimentation
-Seen by later theorists such as Descartes and Newton as anticipating
Roger Bacon - answer-Known as Dr. Mirablis (astounding teacher)
-Placed an emphasis on empiricism
-Has been presented as one of the earliest advocates of the modern scientific method
-was interested in alchemy (i.e. occult (secret) properties in certain plants and metals
-Distinguished between true science and magic
-Called for theological reform, less emphasis on philosophical distinctions in
scholasticism and a return to the bible as the center of attention
-rejected the blind following of prior authorities (both theologically and scientifically)
Thomas Aquinas - answer-Not a natural philosopher (protocol of quaestio)
-Own mentor, albert the great, deeply concerned with Botany
-greatest interpreter of Aristotle
, "all truth is God's truth"
-Revelation corrects and completes rational inquiry but does not displace it.
Augustine of Hippo - answer-reason coupled with authority of scripture
-faith seeking understanding
-thinking leads to knowledge and understanding leads to wisdom
-we are thus dependent but true knowers
Johannes Kepler - answer-Confirmed Copernican
-was a pathagorean mystic of numerology
-lived during a violent time (mother was convicted for witchcraft)
-used napier's logorithms, observed and developed supernova
-realized the heavens weren't perfect because they were changeable
-his work (mysterium cosmographicum represent an attempt to give a basis for
heliocentricsm)
-Worked for Brahe
-HAD THREE LAWS:
1.) Planetary orbits are ellipses (had such confidence in God's rationality and soverignty
that the missing 8 mins of Mars orbit meant that even
2.) Law of Equal Access: we know as a repercussion of conservation of angler
momentum
3.) The Harmonic Law: relates to orbit sun to distance from sun. Still used to this day
Issac Newton - answer-Seen as a mechanist and platonist
-highly mystical, was rediculed by it
-cared about planetary motion
-invented calculous, three laws of motion
-theory of gravity (found out what kepler's k was)
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