Question

on your own paper please answer the following question(s). please keep up. write your answers on the same paper as todays warm - up. always restate each question and write using complete sentences. lesson 4 4. compare and contrast bacon and descartes. 5. how did newton prove his laws of gravity?

Explanation:

For the first question, Bacon was an empiricist who emphasized inductive reasoning and the importance of observation - based knowledge. Descartes was a rationalist who relied on deductive reasoning and his famous "I think, therefore I am" to establish certain knowledge. They had different approaches to epistemology.
For the second question, Newton used a combination of mathematical analysis (calculus which he developed in part for this purpose), celestial and terrestrial observations. He showed that the same force that causes an apple to fall on Earth also governs the motion of the planets. He analyzed Kepler's laws of planetary motion and used them in his derivations.

Answer:

1. Bacon was an empiricist using inductive reasoning; Descartes a rationalist with deductive reasoning. They differed in epistemology.
2. Newton used mathematical analysis (including calculus), and celestial - terrestrial observations, and incorporated Kepler's laws in his proofs of the Laws of Gravity.