Revolutionary Scientists
Enlighten Me
American Revolution
Who Wrote It?
How Romantic!
100
Vesalius corrected ideas on human anatomy by studying these.
What are human corpses.
100
Enlightenment thinkers believed so strongly in this, it is also called the Age of _____________.
What is Reason?
100
This is the number of colonies in existence during the American Revolution.
What is 13?
100
He wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
He composed his Ninth Symphony while deaf.
Who is Beethoven?
200
Galileo was tried by this Roman Catholic court.
What is the Inquisition?
200
This Englishman argued that the government's purpose is to protect the natural rights of man.
Who is John Locke?
200
The Declaration of Independence was written in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
200
His pamphlet, Common Sense, helped convined colonialists of the need for a complete break with Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
This French philosopher argued for more freedom in the arts.
Who is Rousseau?
300
Nicholas Copernicus contradicted the ideas of this ancient Greek astronomer.
Who is Ptolemy?
300
This French philosophe ridiculed the Crown and the Church in his writings.
Who is Voltaire?
300
The first battle of the Revolution was fought in April 1775 in this town.
What is Lexington, Massachusetts?
300
This author of the Encyclopedie was a French athiest.
Who is Diderot?
300
This French artist painted "Liberty Leading the People."
Who is Delacroix?
400
Isaac Newton wrote this theory after studying apples falling from trees and the moon's orbit of the Earth.
What is the Universal Law of Gravitation?
400
Enlightenment thinkers who considered God to be like a Divine Watchmaker were followers of this religious system.
What is Deism?
400
This young French nobleman was made a general in the Continental Army by George Washington.
Who is Lafayette?
400
He published his three laws in the groundbreaking book we call The Principia.
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
He is known as the greatest figure in German literature.
Who is Goethe?
500
England's Royal Society had a Latin motto, which when translated into English says this.
What is "on the word of no one" or "take nobody's word for it."
500
Montesquieu broke all governments down into these three forms.
What are monarchies, republics, and despotic governments.
500
This was the most unpopular tax in the colonies prior to the outbreak of the war.
What is the Stamp Tax?
500
His code of law is considered one of the most important in history and his greatest legacy.
Who is Napoleon?
500
His poetry praises the natural beauty of the English Lake District.
Who is William Wordsworth?
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