People
Inventions, Theories, Truths, etc.
Government
People (cont.)
Characteristics of the Enlightenment
100
Did not invent the telescope, but made it better.
What is Galileo Galilei?
100
An invention that showed that the Earth was not the center of the Universe.
What is the Telescope?
100
The three branches of government developed by Motesquieu.
What is Judiciary, Executive, and Legislative?
100
Devoted to the study of political liberty for balanced government.
What is Montesquieu?
100
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
What is Tolerance?
200
Theorized that the universe was heleocentric.
What is Nicholas Copernicus?
200
Problem or question is asked, hypothesis is made, experiment is conducted, data is collected, and conclusion is formed.
What is the Scientific Method?
200
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What is Natural Rights?
200
Was against torture and abuse of Justice.
What is Beccaria?
200
Justice, kindness, and charity.
What is Legal Reforms?
300
Fought for individual freedom.
What is Rousseau?
300
"I think, therefore, I am."
What is Descartes' Truth?
300
Ideas seen today in the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizens in France.
What is Voltaire?
300
Famous for inventing Calculus and discovering the Laws of Gravity.
What is Isaac Newton?
300
A new concept of man, his existence on Earth and the place of Earth in the Universe.
What is Cosmology?
400
Came up with the Scientific Method.
What is Francis Bacon?
400
A system that placed the Earth directly in the center of the Universe.
What is the Ptolemaic System?
400
Believed that good government is freely formed by the people.
What is Rousseau?
400
Said that belief in God rested on superstition and fear rather than on reason.
What is David Hume?
400
The greatest good for the greatest number.
What is Utilitarianism?
500
Proved the Ptolemaic system was innacurate.
What is Tycho Brache?
500
An object remains at rest or in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
What is the Law of Inertia?
500
Thought that government maintains order, and without it, every man for himself.
What is Thomas Hobbes?
500
Showed that the planets revolved around the Sun using mathmatical formulas.
What is Johannes Kepler?
500
Applications of the methods of science to religion and philosophy.
What is Secularism?
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