Scientific Pioneers
This Italian scientist used a telescope to confirm the earth's orbit around the sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This Enlightenment concept supports the idea that people elect their government.
What is the social contract?
He was invited to rule England after Cromwell’s death.
Who is William of Orange?
Scientists believed their discoveries brought this to God.
What is glory?
Known as the Father of Modern Chemistry.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
Agreed to sign the English Bill of Rights in exchange for the throne.
Who was William and Mary?
He developed calculus and discovered the laws of gravity and motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This French thinker believed reason was the best way to find truth.
Who is René Descartes?
This ruler fled during the Glorious Revolution.
Who is James II?
Medieval scholars were often guided by this instead of evidence.
What is superstition?
He studied the circulatory system.
Who is William Harvey?
Worked to transform Russia into a great state.
Who was Peter the Great?
This astronomer discovered Uranus and built a forty-foot-long telescope.
Who is Sir William Herschel?
The belief that truth is found through experience.
What is empiricism?
This country developed a strong economy without a monarchy.
This country developed a strong economy without a monarchy.
This method promoted accurate, provable answers.
What is the scientific method?
A comet is named after this man.
Who is Edmond Halley?
Ruled as Lord Protector in England.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
Known for discovering the relationship between pressure and gas volume.
Who is Robert Boyle?
The document English colonists believed guaranteed their rights.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The Peace of Westphalia affected this aspect of life in Germany.
What is religion?
After the Scientific Revolution, how did Europeans view reason?
What is as a reliable way to understand the world?
He was a medieval scholar who worked on optics and geography.
Who is Roger Bacon?
Ruled successfully as an absolute monarch in France
Who was Louis XIV? *14th*
This man developed a vaccine for smallpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
This is the view that God made the world but left it to run on natural laws.
What is deism?
The elected monarchy of this country had weak kings.
What is Poland?
This man believed everything in the Bible was not necessarily truth.
Who is Benedict de Spinoza?
He studied human anatomy extensively.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
Challenged Parliament and was defeated in the English Civil War
Who is Charles I?