Biographies
A French philosopher who complied a great expansion of human knowledge into an encyclopedia.
Who is Diderot
John Locke's three natural rights.
What is Life, Liberty and Property.
Who dissected bodies of executed criminals for science?
What is Andreas Vesalius
A new way of thinking about the natural world that challenged traditional views and instead relied upon experimentation
What is the Scientific Revolution
An Enlightenment thinker who is known for the Separation of Powers
Who is Baron Montesquieu
A philosopher that argued for equal rights for women. Wrote a book called the vindication of the rights of women.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft.
A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems?
What is Enlightenment
Who is Robert Boyle
Three discoveries that Galileo made?
What is Craters on moon, sunspots of Saturn, moons of Jupiter, and Milky Way made up of Stars
An Enlightenment thinker whose ideas were religious freedom and freedom of thought and expression.
What is Voltaire
Was known for using experimentation in regards to the scientific method
Who is Francis Bacon
This old view theory that was created by Aristotle where the Earth was the Center of the Universe.
What is Geocentric Theory?
An Enlightenment thinker/French philosopher who believed that the government should work for common good and that society is corrupt.
What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Prussian leader who was influenced by Voltaire who introduced four reforms:
1. Elementary Education for all children
2. Abolished torture
3. Supports most forms of religious tolerance
4. Reduced Censorship
Who was Frederick II
A german philosopher who developed Calculus the same time as Issac Newton
What is Gottfried von Leibniz
A Latin word for God that Newton believed that God was the creator of this orderly universe where the clockmaker who sets everything in motion.
What is Deism
A Scottish economicist who was a strong believer in in laissez-faire economics with no government regulation.
What is Adam Smith.
He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa.
Who is John Locke?
The pope who declared that the church had wrongfully condemned Gaileo.
What is Pope John Paul II
What was Nicolaus Copernicus book that was not published until his later years of life due knowing that the church would oppose his work
What is On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres