Scientific Revolution
This earth-centered view of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?
Helped to bring together their breakthroughs under a single theory of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Befriended several European monarchs and nobles and wrote more than 70 books and essays. In favor of free speech.
Who is Voltaire?
European art of the 1600s and early 1700s had been dominated by the style.
What is baroque?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was a new way of thinking about the natural world.
What is the Scientific Revolution ?
A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems.
What is the Enlightenment?
Devoted himself to the study of political liberty. In favor of separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
The artistic style of the late 1700s, replaced baroque.
What is neoclassical?
A system where different branches of the government can keep other branches in line, this way one branch doesn't get to much power.
What is the system of checks and balances?
Explained why the planets orbited the way they did.
What is the heliocentric theory?
Hobbes called this agreement by which people created a government.
What is the social contract?
Was passionately committed to individual freedom. The son of a poor Swiss watchmaker, they won recognition as a writer of essays. In favor of direct democracy.
Who is Rousseau?
enlightened despots.
Despot means “absolute ruler.”
A system in which power was divided between a national and a state governments.
What is the federal system?
In these large drawing rooms, hostesses held regular social gatherings for enlightened thinkers.
What are salons?
Held a better, more positive view of the human life. Believed in Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke.?
Published an essay called A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The ruler most admired by the philosophes was...
Who is Catherine the Great.
Congress formally added to the Constitution the ten amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Using a specific process to answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
French word for philosophers.
Who are the Philosophes?
Italian scientist who built his own telescope.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Who was the founder of modern chemistry? Wrote a book called The Skeptical Chemist.
Who is Boyle?
In July 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued the...
What is the Declaration of Independence?