Scientist
Put on trial by the Catholic Church for heresy due to his heliocentric writings and other important discoveries like the spots on Jupiter
Galileo Galilei
Believed men should forfeit all rights to one absolute ruler who would control the government.
Thomas Hobbs
Believed humans are naturally bad
Thomas Hobbs
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
Sun centered view of the universe
What is the French word for philosophers?
Philosophes
The heliocentric, or sun-centered theory was proposed by who?
Copernicus
Believed all men could improve through experience and that governments should protect their people’s inalienable rights of life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
“I do not agree with a word you say but I
will defend to the death your right to say
it.”
Voltaire
Parties held by French aristocratic women where Enlightenment thinkers could present their research and talk
Salons
Rights that belong to people simply because they are human beings is called?
natural rights
The law of universal gravitation was proposed by who?
Isaac Newton
Thinker who was known for promoting the scientific method and inductive reasoning
Francis Bacon
Italian who wrote about crime, justice, and punishment. Was against the death penalty and for speedy trials.
Cesare Beccaria
An intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems.
The Enlightenment
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
The Scientific Revolution
Proved that planets move in elliptical orbits.
Johannes Kepler
Wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and believed that women should be able to be educated the same a men and have the same jobs as men.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Name the three natural rights that John Locke believed everyone had the right to.
Life, Liberty and property
Explain a social contract.
An agreement between citizens and their government to exchange some freedom for an orderly society.
Who invented the thermometer
Galileo
Who is considered the founder of modern chemistry?
Robert Boyle
Said “I think therefore I am” and argued for the use of logic and mathematics.
Rene Descartes
Studied the law in Britain and decided a government with seperation of power.
Baron de Montesquieu
The Enlightenment is also known as
The age of reasoning
Explain what is capital punishment
Putting someone to death