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