Vocabulary
People of Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment Philosophers
Notes
Mixed Bag
100
rules explained by reason. ex. magnetism and gravity
Natural Law
100
Polish mathematician who said the earth revolves around the sun
Nicolaus Copernicus
100
The only Philosopher who was female-wanted education and equality for women
Mary Wollstonecraft
100
This Philosopher believed that people are generally good. Came up with the Social Contract
Rousseau
100
Lighter, charming, pictures with nature
Rococo
200
giving up freedom for the benefit of society
Social Contract
200
English mathematician who invented calculus
Sir Isaac Newton
200
American printer, writer, scientist, inventor, politician(this guy did it all)
Benjamin Franklin
200
When the "old order" restricted people from new ideas and information.
Censorship
200
True or False
American colonies were generally prosperous and made a profit.
True
300
rights that belong to people at birth
Natural Rights
300
astronomer who created the telescope and supported Copernicus' claim
Galileo Galilei
300
Said knowledge is gained by experience-"life, liberty, and property"
John Locke
300
Plays set to music. The rich usually attended these
Ballets and Operas
300
Baroque
400
lovers and searchers for wisdom and knowledge
Philosophers
400
He said, "I think, therefore I am."
Rene Descartes
400
Believed in laissez faire-free markets and trade should operate without government intervention
Adam Smith
400
A person who makes music, like Mozart and Beethoven
Composer
400
What or who composed this?
500
Places where people would meet to exchange ideas and talk about the new ideas of the Enlightenment
Salons
500
Discovered how the heart pumps blood, circulation
William Harvey
500
Believed that government should be separated in three parts-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Montesquieu
500
Why was Britain a world power?
Good weather, won more than they lost, they sold more than they bought,
500
Gravity, Magnetism, Laws of Motion are examples of
Natural Law