Major Thoughts/Ideas of the Time
What kind of orbit did Kepler discover while observing the heavenly bodies in our solar system?
An elliptical orbit.
The definition of this word is: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system
Democracy.
The name of the person who discovered the Heliocentric Theory.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Name ONE of the TWO major scientific fields that saw enormous gains during the Scientific Revolution.
Chemistry OR Astronomy.
Isaac Newton's observations of the natural world around him led to his ideas about the force that pulls objects towards the earth. What is that force called?
The Law of Gravity
This thinker proposed the three natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke
This person wrote TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT wherein he argued that monarchs DO NOT have a divine right to be a ruler, and who also used the phrase "tabula rasa", meaning clean slate.
John Locke.
Even though this person wrote plays and poems, he also argued against organized religion while suggesting that people could improve their happiness through science and art.
Voltaire.
This person is credited with creating modern capitalism after meeting with people from various parts of the economic picture, including merchants, philosophers and scientists.
Adam Smith.
This person argued that citizens should give up some of their rights to the leader in exchange for the leader to provide order and protection for the people.
Thomas Hobbes
This term describes an absolute ruler who uses their power to bring about reforms inspired by Enlightenment ideas.
What is a despot or an enlightened despot
The definition of this word is: a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine
Enlightenment
The definition of this phrase is: having or representing the sun as a center of our solar system.
Heliocentric Theory
This person wrote THE SOCIAL CONTRACT and shared his beliefs that the earthly world is inherently good and that humanity is the main cause of evil in the world, and that people are born good, but eventually corrupted by society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The name of the man who "discovered" the human circulatory system.
William Harvey
Name FOUR major scientific inventions/discoveries from the Scientific Revolution.
Telescope, thermometer, microscope, barometer, heliocentric theory, bifocal glasses, supernovas and comets, ocean tides, magnetism, elliptical orbits, laws of gravity, the speed of light, etc.
In his work LEVIATHAN, this person argued that a leader deserves to have absolute power over their people and state.
Thomas Hobbes.
This person wrote a book called THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS, which included his thoughts about government, politics and law, and it focused on how people interact politically and socially.
Montesquieu.
This is the name of the person who proved both Copernicus AND Kepler were correct about the Heliocentric Theory.
Galileo Galilei
These are the six steps of the Scientific Method.
Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, Conclusion