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