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