Scientific Thinkers
Enlightened Thinkers
Earth
Discoveries
American Revolution
100
This period represented a major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
100
He believed all humans were naturally selfish and wicked.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
100
This theory contends the earth is the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?
100
He is the founder of modern chemistry.
Who is Robert Boyle?
100
According to this law, colonists had to pay a tax to have an official stamp put on wills, deeds, newspapers, and other printed material.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Instead of reasoning from abstract theories, he urged scientists to experiment and then draw conclusions.
Who is Francis Bacon?
200
He was devoted to the study of political liberties, including the separation of church and state.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
200
This theory contends that the sun is the center of the universe.
What is the heliocentric theory?
200
Edward Jenner invented a vaccine for this disease.
What is smallpox?
200
He wrote the American Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
"I think, therefore I am" was said by what Scientific thinker?
Who is Rene Descartes?
300
He promoted criminal justice.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
300
He was tried for heresy and put under house arrest at the age of 70 for defending the findings of Copernicus.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
300
In 1714, he made the first thermometer to use mercury in a glass.
Who is Gabriel Fahrenheit?
300
Thomas Jefferson based his documents for independence on the works of this Enlightenment philosopher.
Who is John Locke?
400
He helped to bring together their breakthroughs under a single theory of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
She pushed for women's equality.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
He showed that the earth's orbit was elliptical not circular.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
He used a microscope to observe bacteria?
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
400
The American Revolution inspired this similar event in Europe.
What is the French Revolution?
500
He invented the first microscope in 1590.
Who is Zacharias Janssen?
500
Enlightenment ideas spread through salons and his set of books.
Who is Denis Diderot?
500
He produced mountains of accurate data based on his observations on the planets. However, it was left to his followers to make mathematical sense of them.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
500
He studied the anatomy of the human body by dissecting corpses.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
500
Political system in which power is divided between national and state governments.
What is federal system?
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