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Important Dates
100
What unconventional belief did Galileo hold?
That the Earth moved and it was not the center of the Universe
100
What is said to have affected almost every field of human thought in the 1700s?
The Enlightenment
100
What is a phrase referring to the period of the Enlightenment?
Age of Reason
100
In which century did the Enlightenment occur?
1700s
200
Who published the collection of articles called The Encyclopedia?
Denis Diderot
200
What was the name of the force that Isaac Newton discovered?
gravity
200
What do we call rights that belong to all human beings from birth?
natural rights
200
In 1687 who wrote the book about the workings of the universe and how it follows "natural laws"?
Isaac Newton
300
Why was it such a risk for Galileo to disagree with the Roman Catholic Church?
He could be tortured to death
300
What group of people distrusted institutions like government and the Church?
philosophes
300
What do we call a method involving observation of nature, and, in some sciences, controlled experiments?
scientific method
300
In 1762 Rousseau wrote a book about how the government should put few limits on peoples' behavior. What was the title of this book?
The Social Contract
400
Who said that natural laws should govern human behavior and that government should be based on those laws?
John Locke
400
Rousseau believed people are... (2 words).
naturally good
400
What do we call the time period when scientists began to rely on observation of the natural world?
Scientific Revolution
400
In what year was the church court asking Galileo what he truly believed about the Earth?
1633
500
Whose beliefs did Galileo support?
Nicolaus Copernicus
500
What do we call the science of light, which Newton studied?
optics
500
How do you pronounce philosophe?
fil uh SOF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGle6nBv40E
500
In the middle of which century did Denis Diderot collect the articles by many philosophes?
18th century (mid-1700s)
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