THE ENLIGHTENMENT

- By what other name do we know the period of the Enlightenment?

- What does the Word "enlightenment" mean?

- Which two men were considered the fathers of the Enlightenment? Where did they come from?

- Which type of approach to science did Francis Bacon promote?

- What new type of mathematics did Descartes invent?

- What is the method that Bacon and Descartes developed called? What is it?

- Which great English Enlightenment mathematician and physicist owes to the ideas of Descartes and Bacon?