AP Euro- Chapter 6

The scientific facts that the orbits of the planets are elliptical was discovered by ___

Johannes Kepler

Who published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres and rejected the notion of an earth-centered universe?

Nicolaus Copernicus

Who is known as the father of empiricism?

Francis Bacon

Descartes divided existing things into two categories: body and ___

mind

Hobbes saw human beings as ___

self-centered, power-hungry creatures

Maria Winkelmann made her contribution in the field of ___

astronomy

What percentage of people accused of witchcraft in the early modern period were women?

80%

Galileo named the moons of Jupiter after the Medicis because ___

he wanted to flatter his patrons

Baroque art became associated with ___

Roman Catholicism

Brahe's assistant was ___

Johannes Kepler

The scientist most known for his work on the laws of gravitation was ___

Isaac Newton

Francis Bacon believed that ___

knowledge of nature should be used to improve the human condition

In Locke's view, the relationship between rulers and the governed land had its foundations in ___

trust

According to Pascal's famous wager, ___

it is best to believe God exists and stake everything to gain a lot; if God should prove not to exist, comparatively little would have been lost

The most elaborative baroque monument to political absolutism was ___

Louis XIV's palace at Versailles

Which of these first argued convincingly for the heliocentric model model of the universe?

Nicolaus Copernicus

The Berlin Academy of Science denied Maria Winkelmann's application to continue her husband's study because

she was a women

According to Francis Bacon, the Bible and nature___________.

must be compatible since they share the same author