Scientific Revolution
Description of the Universe with Earth at the center. The Sun, Moon, stars, and planets all orbited Earth
Geocentric
This philosopher claimed, "I think, therefor I am."
Renee Descartes
Term for intellectuals during the Enlightenment.
Philosophe
Name one of the Prussian rulers discussed in the chapter.
Fredrick William I or Fredrick II
Writer of, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
Nicolaus Copernicus
System of thought, based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge.
Rationalism
Intellectual who conceived of the Separation of Powers in government.
Charles-Louis de Secondat, the baron de Montesquieu
Province of Austria which Prussia invaded and took for itself.
Silesia
Astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
Heliocentric
A systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence.
Scientific Method
Enlightenment thinker who was an avid critic of the Roman Catholic church and a Deist.
Voltaire
Austrian monarch whose epitaph read, "Here lies______ who was unfortunate in all of his enterprises."
German mathematician who used detailed astronomical data to arrive at his laws of planetary motion.
Johannes Kepler
Enlightenment thinker whose name is also a delicious breakfast food.
Francis Bacon
Blank slate, in reference to the state of a baby who knows nothing and will absorb whatever they are taught.
Tabula Rasa
Russian czarina who took control of the government after her husband was assassinated by his guards.
Catherine the Great
Scientist who conceived of the Universal law of gravitation.
Isaac Newton
a method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion.
Inductive Reasoning
The writer of the economic book, The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
Considered by many historians to be the first world war in human history.
The Seven Years War