Vocabulary
What was the Scientific Revolution?
What was a new way of thinking about the natural world
Who is credited with a single theory of motion?
Who is Isaac Newton
What is a salon
What is the heliocentric theory? Who is credited for presenting it?
What was a sun-centered universe. Nicolaus Copernicus
What is Boyle’s Law?
What is this law explains how the volume, temperature, and pressure of a gas affect each other
What was the Enlightenment?
What was a new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems
Whose thermometer showed freezing at 32 degrees?
Who was Fahrenheit
What is baroque
Who concluded that certain mathematical laws govern planetary motion?
Who was Johannes Kepler
Who were the philosophes?
Who were people that believed that people could apply reason to all aspects of life.
What is rationalism?
What is the concept that truth could be discovered through reason or logical thinking
Whose thermometer showed freezing at 0?
Who was Celsius
What was neoclassical
Who encouraged empiricism or the experimental method?
Who was Francis Bacon
What was the cultural and intellectual capital of Europe in the 1700s?
What was Paris
Who were the enlightened despots?
Who are rulers who embraced ideas and made reforms that reflected the Enlightenment spirit
Who produced the world’s first vaccination?
Who was Edward Jenner
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is the first ten amendments to the Constitution. They protect such basic rights as freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion
Who invented the first microscope?
Who was Zacharias Janssen
What writer tried to better educational opportunities for women through her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women?
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft
What is a federal system?
What is a system in which power is divided between national and state governments
Whose ideas about civil right influenced criminal law reformers in Europe and North America?
Who was Beccaria
What was the geocentric theory?
What was the Earth centered view of the universe
Who developed the first mercury barometer?
Who was Evangelista Torricelli
What are the two types of different thinking emphasized in the scientific method?
What are deductive and inductive reasoning