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