Scientists
He was the scientist who proved the heliocentric theory using a telescope.
Who is Galileo?
He believed everything should be doubted until proven by reason.
Who is Descartes?
This is the theory that puts the earth in the center of the universe.
What is geocentrism?
This is the method Descartes used to come to certain truth.
What is doubt?
This is the eighteenth century intellectual movement that looked to human reason as the solution for all life’s problems
What is the Enlightenment?
He was the Polish scientist who theorized that the sun was the center of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
He published the first encyclopedia of articles.
Diderot
Galileo's discoveries confirmed this theory first put forth by Copernicus.
What is heliocentrism?
This is the theory that reason is the only sure source of knowledge and truth.
What is rationalism?
What is the Scientific Revolution?
He was the scientist who discovered the laws of planetary motion.
Who is Kepler?
He wrote works of satire mocking the nobility and clergy, and believed in freedom of speech and religious tolerance.
Who was Voltaire?
This is the planet that Galileo saw moons orbit.
What is Jupiter?
These were the French spokesmen of the Enlightenment who advocated for freedom of speech, religious toleration, and natural rights.
Who were the philosophes?
The significance of the Heliocentric theory and what people started doing during the Enlightenment.
What is questioning everything they believed?
He was the scientist/mathematician who discovered the law of gravity.
Who is Newton?
He believed that power should not be concentrated in one place, like a King, but should be separated into branches of government.
Who was Montesquieu?
Kepler discovered and created the three laws of?
Planetary Motion
This is what Rousseau was considered the "Father of".
What is Romanticism?
During the Age of Reason, scientists and philosophers began questioning these two groups.
What are ancient philosophers and the Church? (government is also an acceptable answer)
The scientific theories developed by Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton resulted in
Challenges to the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church
He was the French philosopher who believed that the only good government was formed by the people and guided by the "general will" of society.
Who was Rousseau?
This is Newton's most famous work
What is the Principia?
This is the famous statement by Descartes which articulated what he believed was the most certain truth.
What is "I think; therefore, I am"?
These are the 3 main beliefs and ideas of the Enlightenment.
What are progress, secular outlook, and supremacy of reason?