Scientists
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Vocab
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100
The Greek philosopher who theorized that the earth was the center of the universe.
Who was Ptolemy?
100
The Enlightenment Philosopher who believed that women should be treated equally to men.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
100

The time period in the 1700s during which many Europeans began to break away from tradition and rethink political and social norms

What is the Enlightenment?

100
A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
What is the scientific method?
100

The branch of government that makes the laws

What is the Legislative Branch?

200
Who was the Polish scientist who discovered the sun was the center of the universe?
Who was Copernicus?
200
The philosopher who believed that rulers should be as powerful as a Leviathon, or sea monster, and people were evil by nature.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
200

An agreement between the people and their government

What is social contract?

200
They believed that people should apply reason to all aspects of life and discussed politics and ideas together.
Who or what were philosophes?
200

He wrote the Encyclopedia.

Who is Diderot?

300

He found that planets moved in ovals and not circles - ellipses

Who was Kepler?

300
The Enlightenment Philosopher who believed that people were good by nature could rule themselves.
Who was John Locke?
300
Believed that power should not be concentrated in one place, like a King, but should be separated into branches of government.
Who was Montesquieu?
300
Life, liberty and property?
What are natural rights?
300
The branch of government that judges the laws.

What is the judicial branch?

400
The scientist/mathematician that discovered the laws of gravity.
Who was Newton?
400
The Enlightenment Philosopher who wrote works of satire mocking the nobility and clergy, and believed in freedom of speech and religious tolerance.
Who was Voltaire?
400
The French philosopher who believed that the only good government was formed by the people and guided by the "general will" of society.
Who was Rousseau?
400

a government where the king and queen follows the rules written in a constitution and in the English Bill of Rights

What is constitutional monarchy?

400

Claimed that math is the source of scientific truth

Who was Descartes?

500

Invented a water thermometer to measure changes in temperature

What was Galileo?

500

A period from the 1500s to the 1700s in which many scientific advances changed people’s traditional beliefs

What is the Scientific Revolution?

500

a way of thinking about the world, the universe, and society

What is philosophy?

500
The division of power among different branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
500

Dissected human bodies and describe the internal parts of the bodies

Who was Vesalius?

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