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