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Who helped lay foundations of modern chemistry?

Robert Boyle

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Who came up with the theory of gravity?

Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton was knighted by this monarch of Great Britain.

Queen Anne

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The idea that the earth is at the center of the universe.

Geocentric

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Whose middle finger is preserved in a jar?

Galileo Galilei

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This person was seen as a great synthesizer of the scientific revolution.

Isaac Newton

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This person was suspected of heresy because of their scientific ideologies and works.

Galileo Galilei
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This book best summarizes the philosophy of the Enlightenment.

The Encyclopedia

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A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.

The Enlightenment

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______'s mother died shortly after he was born. He said "my birth was my first misfortune."

Jean-Jacques Rosseau

300

Ideas were exchanged at in this informal meeting place.

Salon

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Created the theory that planetary orbits were ellipses rather than circles.

Johannes Kepler

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Voltaire advocated for the equality of what majorly oppressed religion?

Judaism (The Jewish religion)

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The idea that the sun is at the center of the universe.

Heliocentric

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A lesser known location of a hotbed of Enlightenment ideas.

Bookstores

400

A royal Swedish supporter of science; invited scholars and artists to their court

Queen Christina of Sweden

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This person believed that government should be divided into branches.

Montesquieu

400

David Hume verged on what religion during his attacks on organized religion?

Atheism

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Enlightenment thinkers were called ____ in French.

Philosophes

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Who did Copernicus dedicate his work to?

The pope

500

The new sciences challenged traditional _____ conception of God's place in the ordering of the world.

Christian

500

Whose ideas on popular sovereignty helped create modern democracies?

Rosseau

500

Abbe Guillaume Raynal argued against _____ by saying that this institution and many other practices of European and American colonists were irrational and inhumane.

Slavery

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A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world.

Scientific Revolution

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Emilie du Chatelet hid _____ under her protection in France; they became lovers.

Voltaire

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