Scientific Revolution
Who helped lay foundations of modern chemistry?
Robert Boyle
Who came up with the theory of gravity?
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was knighted by this monarch of Great Britain.
Queen Anne
The idea that the earth is at the center of the universe.
Geocentric
Whose middle finger is preserved in a jar?
Galileo Galilei
This person was seen as a great synthesizer of the scientific revolution.
Isaac Newton
This person was suspected of heresy because of their scientific ideologies and works.
This book best summarizes the philosophy of the Enlightenment.
The Encyclopedia
A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
The Enlightenment
______'s mother died shortly after he was born. He said "my birth was my first misfortune."
Jean-Jacques Rosseau
Ideas were exchanged at in this informal meeting place.
Salon
Johannes Kepler
Voltaire advocated for the equality of what majorly oppressed religion?
Judaism (The Jewish religion)
The idea that the sun is at the center of the universe.
Heliocentric
A lesser known location of a hotbed of Enlightenment ideas.
Bookstores
A royal Swedish supporter of science; invited scholars and artists to their court
Queen Christina of Sweden
Montesquieu
David Hume verged on what religion during his attacks on organized religion?
Atheism
Enlightenment thinkers were called ____ in French.
Philosophes
Who did Copernicus dedicate his work to?
The pope
The new sciences challenged traditional _____ conception of God's place in the ordering of the world.
Christian
Whose ideas on popular sovereignty helped create modern democracies?
Rosseau
Abbe Guillaume Raynal argued against _____ by saying that this institution and many other practices of European and American colonists were irrational and inhumane.
Slavery
A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world.
Scientific Revolution
Emilie du Chatelet hid _____ under her protection in France; they became lovers.
Voltaire