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Joseph Banks
________ (president of the Royal Society) linked scientific inquiry to real- world applications and economic purposes.
Deductive reasoning
________: arguing from general principles to specific truth.
universal law of gravitation
The ________: All matter exerts gravitational attraction in inverse proportion to mass and distance.
Ancients
authority of Aristotle and other classical authors as the foundation of knowledge in fields such as medicine, math, and astronomy
Modern
rejected classical authority & Christian theology, human reason as the key to knowledge, contradicted traditional Christian conceptions
The universal law of gravitation
All matter exerts gravitational attraction in inverse proportion to mass and distance
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