Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use the telescope and study the stars.
What is Galileo
100
Planets revolve around the sun
What is heliocentric theory
100
Wrote "Two Treaties of Government" and believed in kings or one ruler and that the government should protect people from their own evil.
What is John Locke
100
Invented by Galileo, this device was used as a means to discover things out space
What is Telescope
100
Based off of the use of reason in shaping people's ideas about society and politics. (Age of Reason)
What is Enlightenment
200
Came up with the scientific method
What is Francis Bacon
200
Planets revolve around the sun
What is geocentric theory
200
Stated that government should be divided by a system of checks and balances.
What is Montesquieu
200
Made by Robert Boyle, this system was used to distinguish elements and compounds.
What is Boyle's Law
200
Series of wars in central Europe questioning the justness of absolute monarchy.
What is Thirty Years War
300
Used mathematics to explain gravity as the force that keeps planets revolving around the sun and also explained the same force that causes objects to fall to earth.
What is Isaac Newton
300
Idea that all humans are born with rights which include the right to life, liberty, and property.
What is Natural Rights
300
French intellectual that believed freedom of speech was the best weapon against a bad government.
What is Voltaire
300
A child prodigy that had his first concert at age 6 and first opera at 12. His music is widely known throughout the classical fields.
What is Mozart
400
Developed the heliocentric model of the universe
What is Copernicus
400
Every object in the universe attracts every other object
What is Law of Universal Gravitation
400
Wrote "Leviathan" and based on theories saying that government on his belief that man was greedy, selfish, and cruel.
What is Thomas Hobbes
400
Intellectuals of the Enlightenment
What is a Philosopher
500
First to explain sun's rotation on it's axis and tides caused by the moon.
What is Johannes Kepler
500
A doctrine based on proceeding from the particular to the general through math or logic
What is Inductive Principles
500
Wrote "Wealth of Nations" that argued that business activity takes place in a free market and without government regulation
What is Adam Smith
500
Invented by Janssen, this tool was used to magnify things