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