The time period in the 1700s during which many Europeans began to break away from tradition and rethink political and social norms
What is the Enlightenment?
The branch of government that makes the laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
An agreement between the people and their government
What is social contract?
He wrote the Encyclopedia.
Who is Diderot?
He found that planets moved in ovals and not circles - ellipses
Who was Kepler?
What is the judicial branch?
a government where the king and queen follows the rules written in a constitution and in the English Bill of Rights
What is constitutional monarchy?
Claimed that math is the source of scientific truth
Who was Descartes?
Invented a water thermometer to measure changes in temperature
What was Galileo?
A period from the 1500s to the 1700s in which many scientific advances changed people’s traditional beliefs
What is the Scientific Revolution?
a way of thinking about the world, the universe, and society
What is philosophy?
Dissected human bodies and describe the internal parts of the bodies
Who was Vesalius?