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CLEP Western Civilization II: Scientific Revolution And Enlightenment

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1. Sun-centered






2. Did not want toture or the death penalty for criminals






3. French. Learned from Bacon and Descartes. Invented a calculating machine. Made a theory of probability and chance.






4. Led a rebellion against the wealthy people owning land in Russia.






5. '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.






6. Russia. wrote letters to famous people of the Enlightenment like Voltaire. She also wavered about torture and the dealth penalty for ciminals.






7. Earth-centered






8. Argued for the rights of women.






9. Noble savage. Wrote: Social Contract. general will.






10. Wrote: Candide (wants people to use Enlightenment ideas) Wrote: Treatise on Toleration (religious freedom 'all men are brothers under God' 'crush the infamous thing!'






11. Catholic. Wanted equality for everyone.






12. 'greatest good for the greatest number' REA p. 28. Jeremy Benthan is associated with this.






13. To put it plainly: he dissected dead people.






14. Encyclopedia - or Classified Dictionary of the Sciences - arts - and Trades






15. Believed that the government should leave the economy alone. Capitalism






16. Wrote: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (eplained the downfall of Rome)






17. Scienctific method. inductive reasoning: information-->general theory-->multiple experimentations. Wrote: Novom Organum and Bew Atlantis.






18. Calculus. Calculating machine 30 yrs. after Pascal. Wrote: Theodicee.






19. 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.






20. 'begins with general principles and derives particular information from them.' Rea p. 24






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.






22. By Nicolauus Copernicus. They point of the book was that the sun is the center of the universe.






23. Said that sickness often will come from the chemical imbalences in your body.






24. 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






25. Critcized the Catholic church and the French monarchy indirectly. checks and balances.






26. Austria. Sold Catholic convents and monestaries and supported hospitals with the money. Believed that educating the rich and the poor made them more equal.






27. Wrote: Genius of Christianity. wrote about the effects of religio on the culture.






28. Prussia. made the land better for farming. Made a bureaucracy: funtions and offices of the government.






29. Was able to explain how the planets orbited. Wrote: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia). Said gravity explained the planets movement.






30. Studied the circulatory system.






31. Believed the heliocentric universe idea. Wrote: The New Astronomy. Assitant of Tycho Brahe and believe that God gave people brains to discover things.






32. Questioned religion and said the what people believe is something from their senses.






33. 'provided freedom of worship to various persuasions' REA p. 29






34. Deist. went to France to get them to join the war for independece. Inventor