Vocabulary
This word means a sun-centered solar system.
What is Heliocentric?
This famous scientist used math to show planets orbit in an oval and not circles.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
What is the Scientific Method?
This philosopher believed people were naturally selfish and self-serving.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
These two philosophers believed a social contract was between the people and their government/ruler.
Who are John Locke and Thomas Hobbes?
This word is a person that studies the motion of stars and planets.
Who is an Astronomer?
He is known as the most famous Astronomer.
Who is Galileo?
This step of the Scientific Method is when you predict the outcome of the problem.
What is a hypothesis?
This philosopher believed in freedom of speech.
Who is Voltaire?
These are the three natural rights believed by John Locke.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This word is the division of power among branches of government.
What is Separation of Powers?
These are three famous inventions by Galileo.
What are the telescope, clock, and water thermometer?
Isaac Newton invented this style of math.
What is calculus?
This philosopher believed that the three branches of government should be separated.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This is a form of government that places unlimited power in the hands of the King.
What is Absolutism?
This word is when you are exiled, or thrown out of the church.
What is excommunication?
He is known for creating the heliocentric theory.
This scientific law led to the discovery of the existence of gravity.
What are the Laws of Motion?
This philosopher believed people had the power to abolish the government if it did not protect peoples freedom.
Who is John Locke?
The Enlightenment took place during these centuries.
What are the 17th and 18th centuries?
This word is when planets orbit in an oval shape.
What is Ellipses?
Kepler is known to prove what about planet orbit speed around the sun?
What is they move faster when they are closer to the sun?
He is known as the founder of modern rationalism.
Who is Rene Descartes?
These three philosophers all believed in a Social Contract.
Who are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Jean Jacques Rousseau believed the government should create policies for the people by what?
What is majority rules?