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