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