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Literature Circles Chapter 6 section 27

Questions Nick Lapiana

What were the conditions for scientific work before the 17th century? - The scientists didnt publish their work so that others could build off of it.

Who were Bacon and Descartes, and what were their different ways at arriving at the truth? -Bacon - Scientist who argued for the inductive reasoning method which startes at the details and works to the broad subject, and thought all knowledge was derived from experience -Descartes - A mathmatician who invented coordinate geometry, used the deductive method which started at the broad and worked to the details.

Graphic Organizer Rachel Hollinger Sir Isaac Newton Leonardo da Vinci Michel de Montaigne He asked "What do I know?" women hanged for the crime of witchcraft Francis Bacon Rene Descartes

Danetta People

Leonardo Da Vinci- (1452-1519) itialian painter, engineer, and scientific thinker. thought of today as a scientist but was not in his life time. because he did not publish his scientific finds for other scientist to tests.

Francis Bacon-(1561-1626) thought that medieval methods were backwards. wrote the "Great Renewal" calling for a complete new start in science and civilization. he insisted on 'inductive method' of thinking. the was awful at math

Rene Descartes-(1596-1650) a great mathemetician, the inventor of coordinate geometry. he wanted to create a belief in a vast world of nature that could be reduced to mathematical form. "i think therefore i exist" quote form Descartes. published books of his theories.

__**Online Resource**__ __Anastasia Clayton__ [|Francis Bacon's estate] Galileo's Journal Entries

Graphic Organizer Tara

Bacon and Decartes were very important men in the 17th century in the way that they thought medieval (or Aristotelian) methods were backward.



Bacon had two "parts" or methods: the inductive method and the deductive method.

Jacob McClarnon Chapter 6

Leonardo da Vinci - Universal genius if the Italian Renaissance. Artist, engineer, Francis Bacon - English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Rene Descartes - French philosopher, mathematician, and writer; 'Father of Modern Philosophy'. Inventor of coordinate geometry.