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