scientists
This "virtuoso" of the Scientific Revolution was the first Earl of Cork.
Who is Sir Robert Boyle?
Protestant princes formed this defensive military alliance.
What is the Protestant Union?
This idea says rulers' authority comes from God and that rulers therefore answer to only God.
What is the divine right of kings?
Catholic princes answered the Protestant Union with the formation of this organization.
What is the Catholic League?
What great figure is absent from rulers' assumption of the divine right of kings?
Who is God?
This "law" says that pressure of gas within a container is inversely proportional to its volume
What is Boyle's law?
These rulers of the Holy Roman Empire agreed with the Catholic League.
Who are the Habsburgs?
Although nominally a Catholic nation-state, this European kingdom sided with the Protestant Union.
What is France?
He wrote The Christian Virtuoso.
Who is Sir Robert Boyle?
This transformative European conflict can be divided into four stages and lasted from 1618 to 1948.
What is the Thirty Years War?
This book expounded how a better understanding of the workings of God's world should increase one's faith.
What is The Christian Virtuoso?
This brilliant Swedish military commander defeated the emperor's army at the Battle of Lutzen in 1632.
Who is Gustavus Adolphus?
This treaty officially ended the Thirty Years War in 1648.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This empire was weakened after the Thirty Years War.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?