Thought and Ideas
Astronomy
Philosophy and Religion
Art
Biology
100
What was the seventeenth and eighteen century exaltation of reason known as?
The Age of Reason
100
Who proposed the heliocentric theory?
Copernicus
100
From Montesquieu, the framers of the United States Constitution took what idea?
Separation of Powers
100
Name two baroque composers.
Bach and Handel
100
What term describes inoculation against disease?
Vaccination
200
What was the eighteenth-century intellectual movement known as?
Enlightenment
200
Which Greek geographer emphasized the geocentric theory?
Ptolomy
200
Who preached the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Jonathan Edwards
200
Who was the transitional composer between the classical and the romantic styles of music?
Beethoven
200
Who made an improved microscope and used it to discover bacteria?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
300
Scientists use this when seeking answers to their questions.
The Scientific Method
300
Which German astronomer proved that the orbits of the planets are elliptical?
Kepler
300
Which group believed that God was the creator, but that he no longer intervened in human affairs?
Deists
300
Name the Dutch baroque painter who used gold tones and warm browns.
Rembrandt van Rijn
300
Who discovered the method for vaccinating against small pox?
Edward Jenner
400
What is the belief that reason was the only way to find knowledge and truth?
Rationalism
400
What is the name of the theory of the universe that was supported by the Roman Catholic Church during the Age of Reason?
Geocentric
400
Name the "English" composer who was actually a German immigrant.
Handel
400
Who wrote a famous book about human anatomy in 1543?
Vesalius
500
Who believed that there were two realities the mind or spiritual and matter or the physical world?
Rene Descartes
500
Which group believed that God was the creator, but that he no longer intervened in human affairs?
Deists
500
What is the belief in many Gods?
Pantheism
500
Name the German composer who learned to play the harpsichord at the age of four.
Mozart
500
Who made the first clinical study of disease and pioneered the use of chemicals for treatment?
Paracelsus
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