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