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