ESS102H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bernard Palissy, Neptunism, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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1) baconian(francis bacon) explore the universe, expreimently freely and collect facts, deduce things from facts amateurs, Catesian (rene decartes) explain and unify findings, deduce laws by pure reason, experiments needed to verify laws the pros 2) Principle dominated for 2000 years, - the renaissance scientists began to create universities, places of critical thought and began forming new ideas. Bernard palissy - 3 big contributions to geologic thought : origins of springs, origins of fossils, origins of crystals . 7) neptunists vs plutonists neptunists watermen fronted by abraham werner - rocks we see originated by sedimenting or precipitating out of a primeval ocean. Plutonists firemen fronted by james hutton and anton moro - rocks we see originated by cooling of molten magma or by other action of heat. Problem with neptunist theory cross cutting layers, where did the water go, and tilted layers.
