Famous People
First to theorize that the earth revolved around the sun
copernicus
a proposed explanation for a phenomenon
Hypothesis
Stating the______
problem
allowed for ideas to circulate faster through not only books, but also journals, newspapers, and pamphlets.
Guttenberg's Printing Press
Favored self-government,
Believed everyone is born with a "blank slate",
All of mankind deserves the right to live, liberty, and property,
John Locke
First to record the positions of the stars
Tycho Brahe
A series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period,
Scientific Revolution
Collecting _______
information
made during the Scientific Revolution encouraged people to use rationalism to create thoughts, not only faith.
Discoveries
created the idea of the system of checks and balances,
Montesquieu
mapped the orbits of the planets
Kepler
Rights that belong to people simply because they are human beings.
Natural rights
Forming a ___________: an educated guess as to what may happen.
hypothesis
People started to ________for themselves and started disregarding the idea of following God’s laws and started following their “own” laws and thinking for themselves.
Think
Believed people are naturally selfish and wicked
Hobbies
First person to study the sky using telescope
Galileo
Conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into existence.
State of nature
________the hypothesis.
test
Religion, tradition, and superstition limited __________thought.
independent
Believed women deserved same education as men, encouraged women to join male-dominated work fields (medicine, science,and politics)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Invented Calculus and created laws of motion
Sir isaac Newton
An understood agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits.
Social Contract
Recording and________data.
analyze
People should accept knowledge based on observation, logic, and reason – not________.
faith
criticized the church, believed in deism -->belief that God created
the earth and allows humankind to run it, without interference, through natural
law and reason
Voltaire