Key Terms
Scientists
Scientific Method
Philosophes
100
Changed the way Europeans looked at the world
What is Scientific Revolution
100
Developed the scientific method
Who is Bacon
100
Step One
What is Observe
100
Believed in the separation of powers
Who is Montesquieu
200
Intellectuals of the Enlightenment
What is Philosophes
200
Discovered the laws of gravity
Who is Newton
200
Step Two
What is make a Hypothesis
200
People have natural rights (life, liberty, property)
Who is Locke
300
Time period when writers challenged many accepted ideas about government and society
What is Enlightenment
300
Believed the sun was the center of the universe
Who is Copernicus
300
Step Three
What is make a predication
300
Humans are naturally violent and disorderly
Who is Hobbes
400
The rights to life, liberty and ownership of property
What is natural rights
400
Mathematics is the source of all scientific truth
Who is Descartes
400
Step Four
What is test your predications
400
People are good, but power corrupts them
Who is Rousseau
500
Absolutists monarchs influenced by Enlightenment ideas
What is Enlightened Despots
500
Planets move in an eclipses or oval paths rather than circular
Who is Kepler
500
Step Five
What is Modify hypothesis in light of results
500
Kings should be more tolerant
Who is Voltaire
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