Vocab
The God given right to rule.
Divine Right
Used math and logic to prove basic truths.
Rene Decartes
Use math, logic, experimentation + observation to gain knowledge + prove basic truths
Scientific Method
Age of glorifying reason
Enlightment
Father of Modern Chemistry, first to define an element Boyle’s law
Boyle
The principle of separation of the state from religious.
Secularism
Russian Consitution, Code of laws, wanted to free surfs but would’ve lost power.
Catherine the great
Used experimentation + observation to gain knowledge
Francis Bacon
free will when making all decisions co creater of the Enclopidia
Denis Diderot
Ended torture + death penalty, free food + medicine for the poor, extended religious to Protestants + jews, Ahdished serfdom
Joseph ll
The idea that a body of laws should govern a society.
Constitutionalism
Leader of Prussia, ruled with absolute power, elementary school system, abolished torture, supported some religious tolerance, reduced censorship.
Frederick the Great
Challenge traditional authority, exploration, closer study of natural world, more accurate instruments
Causes
King or queen wants to use Enlightment ideas but still have absolute power
Enlightment desposit
Demoractic Revolution began, every western government on the defensive, reform, democracy + republicanism were placed irrevocably on the western agenda, new forms of civil society
Effects/legacy of Enlightment
Opioions & ideas should be based on knowledge.
Rationalism
Philosophe for free speech
Voltaire
Invented microscope + first person to describe red blood cells, yeast, + bacteria.
Leeuwenhoek
Equal rights for women,Equality in Education
Mary Wollstonecraft
Used bodies of executed prisoners to draw human anatomy
Vesalius
Dictorship
Despotism
Proved our solar system is heliocentric
Copernlcus
Beginnings of modern science, belief in power of reason + progress, The Enlightment, conflicts with the Catholic Church
Effects
The idea that people will do whats best for people even if they have to give up some freedoms to make society better.
General Will.
First telescope first to observe Saturn and craters
Galileo