Name three famous Astronomers from the Scientific Revolution
Galileo Galilei, Nicolas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler
100
This man invented Calculus and wrote about the Laws of Motion and the Law of Gravity.
Isaac Newton
100
His ideas influenced the Declaration of Independence.
John Locke
100
He edited the Encyclopédie and was a strong supporter of religious tolerance.
Denis Diderot
100
These two revolutions were caused by the radical new ideas of the Enlightenment.
American and French
200
He was the first man to propose the sun was the center of the universe.
Nicolas Copernicus
200
Isaac Newton wrote about his theories in this book.
Principia
200
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
200
His major contribution, the social contract, stated that people willingly agree to be governed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
200
This term, starting with the letter P, is applied to Enlightenment thinkers.
Philosophe
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He used mathematical formulas to prove the planets orbit the sun in elliptical paths.
Johannes Kepler
300
This man invented the Scientific Method.
Sir Francis Bacon
300
Who suggested that government powers are best when separated?
The Baron de Montisquieu
300
She is the founder of the women's rights movement.
Mary Wollstonecraft
300
This religious philosophy of the 1700s was based on natural law.
Deism.
400
This Italian invented the telescope, discovered the moons of Jupiter, and proved the Earth was not the center of the Universe.
Galileo
400
Formulate a hypothesis, perform experiments, make observations, record results.
The Scientific Method
400
What important document of the United States government was greatly influenced by the Baron de Montisquieu?
The Constitution.
400
Meaning "Let it Be", this statement by Adam Smith became an important concept in Economics.
Laissez-Faire
400
This man, the father of Rationalism, found truth in the statement "I think, therefore I am!"
Rene Descartes
500
This organization forced Galileo to recant, or take back, his statements about the nature of the Universe.
The Catholic Church
500
This husband and wife couple did most of their work in Chemistry, working especially with the element Oxygen.
Antoine and Marie Levosier
500
What two ideas included in the Constitution are borrowed from the ideas of Montisquieu?
Checks and Balances, divided government or powers
500
Voltaire and other philosophes viewed the Universe as what type of device?
A clock
500
The idea that Reason alone cannot explain the existence of God (or other abstract ideas like love and beauty) was proposed by this opponent of the Enlightenment.