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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.
Marie Jean de Condorcet
Geocentrism
Utilitarianism
Sir Francis Bacon
2. Did not want toture or the death penalty for criminals
Gottfried Leibniz
Cesare Beccaria
Deists
Sir Francis Bacon
3. French. Learned from Bacon and Descartes. Invented a calculating machine. Made a theory of probability and chance.
Sir Francis Bacon
Blaise Pascal
Adam Smith
Andreas Vesalius
4. Sun-centered
Charles Montesquieu
Galileo Galilei
Heliocentrism
Adam Smith
5. Russia. wrote letters to famous people of the Enlightenment like Voltaire. She also wavered about torture and the dealth penalty for ciminals.
Catherine the Great
Blaise Pascal
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Emelyn Pugachev
6. Wrote: Candide (wants people to use Enlightenment ideas) Wrote: Treatise on Toleration (religious freedom 'all men are brothers under God' 'crush the infamous thing!'
Sir Francis Bacon
Francois Voltaire
Denis Diderot
Galileo Galilei
7. Catholic. Wanted equality for everyone.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Deists
Frederick the Great
Francois Fenelcon
8. Austria. Sold Catholic convents and monestaries and supported hospitals with the money. Believed that educating the rich and the poor made them more equal.
Joseph II
Frederick the Great
Sir Francis Bacon
Deists
9. Was able to explain how the planets orbited. Wrote: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia). Said gravity explained the planets movement.
Paracelsus
Isaac Newton
Gottfried Leibniz
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
10. Noble savage. Wrote: Social Contract. general will.
Denis Diderot
Heliocentrism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rene Descartes
11. Led a rebellion against the wealthy people owning land in Russia.
Emelyn Pugachev
William Harvery
Deists
Catherine the Great
12. By Nicolauus Copernicus. They point of the book was that the sun is the center of the universe.
Francois Fenelcon
Charles Montesquieu
Deductive method
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
13. 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.
David Hume
Rene Descartes
Emelyn Pugachev
Deists
14. Studied the circulatory system.
William Harvery
Marie Jean de Condorcet
Denis Diderot
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
15. Wrote: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (eplained the downfall of Rome)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Blaise Pascal
Francois Voltaire
Edward Gibbon
16. 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
Deductive method
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Rene de Chateaubriand
17. To put it plainly: he dissected dead people.
Isaac Newton
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Utilitarianism
Andreas Vesalius
18. Wrote: Genius of Christianity. wrote about the effects of religio on the culture.
Sir Francis Bacon
Cesare Beccaria
Rene de Chateaubriand
David Hume
19. 'begins with general principles and derives particular information from them.' Rea p. 24
Deductive method
William Harvery
Frederick the Great
Charles Montesquieu
20. Earth-centered
Geocentrism
Edict of Toleration
Mary Wollstonecraft
William Harvery
21. Critcized the Catholic church and the French monarchy indirectly. checks and balances.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Deists
Edward Gibbon
Charles Montesquieu
22. Calculus. Calculating machine 30 yrs. after Pascal. Wrote: Theodicee.
Galileo Galilei
Andreas Vesalius
Johannes Kepler
Gottfried Leibniz
23. Said that sickness often will come from the chemical imbalences in your body.
Mary Wollstonecraft
William Harvery
Andreas Vesalius
Paracelsus
24. Deist. went to France to get them to join the war for independece. Inventor
Geocentrism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Catherine the Great
Benjam Franklin
25. Prussia. made the land better for farming. Made a bureaucracy: funtions and offices of the government.
Frederick the Great
Andreas Vesalius
Utilitarianism
Sir Francis Bacon
26. Questioned religion and said the what people believe is something from their senses.
David Hume
Gottfried Leibniz
Deductive method
Francois Fenelcon
27. Scienctific method. inductive reasoning: information-->general theory-->multiple experimentations. Wrote: Novom Organum and Bew Atlantis.
Sir Francis Bacon
Catherine the Great
Andreas Vesalius
Rene de Chateaubriand
28. Believed that the government should leave the economy alone. Capitalism
Charles Montesquieu
Edward Gibbon
Adam Smith
Sir Francis Bacon
29. 'provided freedom of worship to various persuasions' REA p. 29
Edict of Toleration
Paracelsus
Adam Smith
Utilitarianism
30. Encyclopedia - or Classified Dictionary of the Sciences - arts - and Trades
Deductive method
Denis Diderot
Rene de Chateaubriand
Gottfried Leibniz
31. 'greatest good for the greatest number' REA p. 28. Jeremy Benthan is associated with this.
Utilitarianism
Catherine the Great
Emelyn Pugachev
William Harvery
32. Believed the heliocentric universe idea. Wrote: The New Astronomy. Assitant of Tycho Brahe and believe that God gave people brains to discover things.
Gottfried Leibniz
Francois Voltaire
Francois Fenelcon
Johannes Kepler
33. Argued for the rights of women.
Edward Gibbon
Mary Wollstonecraft
Emelyn Pugachev
Marie Jean de Condorcet
34. 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.
Deductive method
Rene de Chateaubriand
Edict of Toleration
Deists