Interesting Facts
Who was put under house arrest at the age of 70?
Galileo Galilei
Created a telescope to further examine the stars and Jupiter's moons
Galileo Galilei
Wrote "The Leviathan"
Came up with the Law of Falling Bodies where it was disproved that heavier bodies fell faster than lighter ones
Galileo
Gathering of the social, political, and cultural elite in France during the Enlightenment
Salons
Lost the bridge of his nose in a sword fight with a fellow student
Tycho Brahe
Came up with the Heliocentric Theory
Nicolaus Copernicus
Wrote "The Social Contract"
Rousseau
The story of the apple falling on Newton's head inspired this law
Law of Gravity(1686)
A group of thinkers or philosophers of the Enlightenment
Philosphes
First to witness a supernova
Johannes Kepler
Discovered that planets orbit in ellipses (Planetary Motion)
Johannes Kepler
Wrote "Candide"
Voltaire
Who invented a way to express geometric shapes and a coordinate system known as Analytical Geometry
Rene Descartes
City that was the center of intellectual activity during the Enlightenment
Paris, France
He attended four universities before earning his degree
Nicolaus Copernicus
Came up with a universal theory about gravity
Isaac Newton
Edited the "Encyclopedia"
Diedrot
Discovered Supernovas and Comets
Tycho Brahe
The period in the 1700s when philosophers believed that they could apply the scientific method and use reason to explain human nature logically
Enlightenment
Isaac Newton
Wrote "The Spirit of Laws"
Montesquieu
Who designed a device to measure air pressure
Evangelista Torricelli
System of government in which absolute monarchy ruled according to the principles of the Enlightenment
Enlightened Despotism