Nathan PetrofesDr. Stanton6th Period28 October 2013Descartes Traditional thinking methods thinking prior to Descartes time mostly consisted of the deductive method which is made up of our previous beliefs. In the passage Descartes talks about getting to the whole truth through whatever means possible, contradicting the inductive method. In the passage Descartes says that by assuming some order to exist even in things which do not appear to be naturally connected he gains insight into the truth. This is a clear weakness to his method because not all things are naturally connected. A modern scientist might look at Descartes second part where he breaks down the difficulty into every way possible as extraneous and unnecessary. I feel as though Descartes approach was mainly geared toward a math problem since he was a mathematician.GalileoAccording to Galileo questions that are appropriately scientific are questions about what sense-experience sets before us and what necessary demonstrations prove to us. Galileo says that appropriately theological questions are the dictate of the Holy Ghost and the executrix of Gods commands. Galileo seems more mindful of his faith than Descartes who seems to exclude it from the matter altogether. Even though Galileo is questioning his faith he still recognizes its importance where Descartes seems to be focused on himself. Galileos views are so important to the scientific revolution because they are what the revolution was about: questioning what the Church taught through experiments.NewtonNewtons laws are extremely useful in partaking in an experiment because they seem to set up the modern scientific method. In Rule IV we see that Newton explains the necessity of the hypothesis. In Rule II we see the need to assign causes to effects which an experiment clearly explains. In Rule I we see the reason for the experiment itself which is to not make assumptions and to find the cause of things. Descartes rules were about thinking about how the problem could be solved especially through ones brain. Newton seems to want to act more on the question to find the answer.Sir Georges ClarkAccording to Clark there were many motives for people wanting to study and experiment. He talks about the economic motives of the Germans, Italians, and Portuguese. He talks about the health motivations of doctors, the musicians learning the mathematics of harmony and the religious motivations of absolute correctness. The desire to know was so powerful in the seventeenth century that it drove all of life unlike the times before.