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CLEP Western Civilization II: Scientific Revolution And Enlightenment
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1. 'no limit to the perfecting of the powers of man' rea. p. 28 said humans could become perfect. Wrote: Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Johannes Kepler
Marie Jean de Condorcet
Rene de Chateaubriand
2. Believed that the government should leave the economy alone. Capitalism
Francois Fenelcon
Adam Smith
Francois Voltaire
Catherine the Great
3. Critcized the Catholic church and the French monarchy indirectly. checks and balances.
Isaac Newton
Charles Montesquieu
Gottfried Leibniz
Emelyn Pugachev
4. Calculus. Calculating machine 30 yrs. after Pascal. Wrote: Theodicee.
Gottfried Leibniz
Isaac Newton
Marie Jean de Condorcet
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5. Believed that God was not involved in the world once He created it. Believed that that they were supposed to discover laws and then teach others about the laws.
Benjam Franklin
Paracelsus
Deists
Sir Francis Bacon
6. 'greatest good for the greatest number' REA p. 28. Jeremy Benthan is associated with this.
Heliocentrism
Utilitarianism
Francois Fenelcon
Edward Gibbon
7. The first person to use a telescope in a matter to study the universe. He also found out that Jupiter has four moons. Wrote Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems-Ptolemaic and Copernican and The Starry Messanger. Renounced his viewes by pre
Galileo Galilei
Mary Wollstonecraft
Charles Montesquieu
Rene Descartes
8. 'begins with general principles and derives particular information from them.' Rea p. 24
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Deductive method
Geocentrism
Emelyn Pugachev
9. By Nicolauus Copernicus. They point of the book was that the sun is the center of the universe.
Gottfried Leibniz
Rene de Chateaubriand
William Harvery
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
10. Catholic. Wanted equality for everyone.
Galileo Galilei
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Benjam Franklin
Francois Fenelcon
11. To put it plainly: he dissected dead people.
Emelyn Pugachev
Paracelsus
Francois Voltaire
Andreas Vesalius
12. Questioned religion and said the what people believe is something from their senses.
Francois Voltaire
Johannes Kepler
Utilitarianism
David Hume
13. Wrote: Genius of Christianity. wrote about the effects of religio on the culture.
Cesare Beccaria
Adam Smith
Benjam Franklin
Rene de Chateaubriand
14. Believed the heliocentric universe idea. Wrote: The New Astronomy. Assitant of Tycho Brahe and believe that God gave people brains to discover things.
Johannes Kepler
Charles Montesquieu
Emelyn Pugachev
Galileo Galilei
15. French. Learned from Bacon and Descartes. Invented a calculating machine. Made a theory of probability and chance.
Francois Fenelcon
Johannes Kepler
Blaise Pascal
Sir Francis Bacon
16. Wrote: Candide (wants people to use Enlightenment ideas) Wrote: Treatise on Toleration (religious freedom 'all men are brothers under God' 'crush the infamous thing!'
Francois Voltaire
Johannes Kepler
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Utilitarianism
17. Noble savage. Wrote: Social Contract. general will.
Andreas Vesalius
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Geocentrism
Edict of Toleration
18. Said that sickness often will come from the chemical imbalences in your body.
Adam Smith
Deists
David Hume
Paracelsus
19. Russia. wrote letters to famous people of the Enlightenment like Voltaire. She also wavered about torture and the dealth penalty for ciminals.
Geocentrism
Cesare Beccaria
Catherine the Great
Deists
20. Wrote: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (eplained the downfall of Rome)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Edward Gibbon
Denis Diderot
Utilitarianism
21. Encyclopedia - or Classified Dictionary of the Sciences - arts - and Trades
Denis Diderot
Francois Voltaire
Paracelsus
Andreas Vesalius
22. Deist. went to France to get them to join the war for independece. Inventor
Benjam Franklin
Frederick the Great
Emelyn Pugachev
Cesare Beccaria
23. Led a rebellion against the wealthy people owning land in Russia.
Edict of Toleration
Edward Gibbon
Mary Wollstonecraft
Emelyn Pugachev
24. Scienctific method. inductive reasoning: information-->general theory-->multiple experimentations. Wrote: Novom Organum and Bew Atlantis.
Gottfried Leibniz
Francois Voltaire
Charles Montesquieu
Sir Francis Bacon
25. Austria. Sold Catholic convents and monestaries and supported hospitals with the money. Believed that educating the rich and the poor made them more equal.
Utilitarianism
Adam Smith
Blaise Pascal
Joseph II
26. Sun-centered
Deists
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Edict of Toleration
Heliocentrism
27. Was able to explain how the planets orbited. Wrote: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia). Said gravity explained the planets movement.
Frederick the Great
Andreas Vesalius
Isaac Newton
Geocentrism
28. Deductive method. Wrote: Discourse on Method. said: 'I think therefore I am' Said because we are not perfect is the reason God exists. Taught Christina of Sweden.
Rene Descartes
Cesare Beccaria
Heliocentrism
Edict of Toleration
29. Prussia. made the land better for farming. Made a bureaucracy: funtions and offices of the government.
Heliocentrism
Frederick the Great
Gottfried Leibniz
Deductive method
30. 'provided freedom of worship to various persuasions' REA p. 29
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Emelyn Pugachev
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edict of Toleration
31. Studied the circulatory system.
Rene Descartes
Deists
Emelyn Pugachev
William Harvery
32. Argued for the rights of women.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Benjam Franklin
Marie Jean de Condorcet
Sir Francis Bacon
33. Earth-centered
Geocentrism
William Harvery
Emelyn Pugachev
Marie Jean de Condorcet
34. Did not want toture or the death penalty for criminals
Heliocentrism
Andreas Vesalius
Cesare Beccaria
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres