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100
William Harvey is known for this discovery.
What is the heart works as a pump?
100
Governs the pressure of gases.
What is Boyle’s Law?
100
This three part law contains “velocity varied from distance from the sun”.
What is the three laws of planetary motion state?
100
Isaac Newton wrote this book on gravitation.
What is the Principia (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Knowledge)?
100
These were the places in Paris where people who were interested in science and philosophy met. Also where scientists met to discuss their findings along with art, literature, and politics.
What are salons, coffeehouses, and bookstores?
200
He was Tycho Brahe’s (1546 – 1601) assistant.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
200
The year the “Social Contract” was written by Rousseau.
What is 1762?
200
Hermetic Doctrine instructed all people should seek to understand this.
What is the Divine Spirit?
200
Mary Wollstonecraft’s book “Vindication of the Rights of Women” (1792) covered these topics.
What is the condition of women and equal rights for all humans.
200
This was considered the Copernican revolution.
What is the change from a geo-centric universe (earth centered) to a helio-centric (sun centered) universe?
300
He sent his five children to a hospital for abandoned children.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
300
Hermes Trismegistus.
Who was not the founder of the Hermetic Doctrine?
300
Cesare Beccaria thought that the laws of life should contain these two things.
What are reason and natural law?
300
Andreas Vesalius wrote this book, covering the structure of the human body.
What is the treatise “On the Fabric of the Human Body” (1543)?
300
The common modern word for Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s “animalcules” is this.
What is Bacteria?
400
He formulated the principle that shows that bodies are set in to motion, will tend to stay in motion.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
400
An idea was founded by combining popularization of science and Enlightenment thinking.
What is the thought every educated man and women should be familiar with the nature of methods of science.
400
The book “Historical and Critical Dictionary” by Pierce Bayle expressed this philosophical view.
What is Skepticism?
400
This was Voltaire’s wide ranging attack on supernatural religion and churches.
What is the “Philosophical Dictionary”?
400
This scientific genre was founded by Robert Boyle.
What is Chemistry?
500
This person excelled in mathematics and served in the Thirty Years War.
Who is Rene Descartes?
500
The name of one of the two organizations that Charles II or Louis XIV founded.
What is the Royal Society in England or Academides Sciences in France?
500
Copernicus worked on this type of mmodel for 25 years.
What is a heliocentric model of the universe?
500
The Diderot Encyclopedia embodied this notion.
What is that reason alone could be used to discover, understand, or clarify almost anything.
500
Anton van Leeuwenhoek was famous for using this instrument.
What is a microscope with one lens?