Science Revolution and Enlightenment Quiz Notes

John Locke

________:: Pushed for political rights, believed that everyone was born with a blank mind.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Created the idea of the Social Contract that the people allow their rulers to be in power.

Rationalism

Theory that opinion and actions are based on reason.

Scientific Method

Procedure of answering questions based on observation, measurement, experiment, etc.

Philosophers

People who attack the ideas of the church.

Salons

________:: elegant meeting places where wealthy upper and middle class people had conversations over the issues of the day.

Catherine the Great

Enlightened Despot who ruled Russia.

Joseph II

Enlightened Despot who ruled the Holy Roman Empire.

Merchants

The people who took ideas around the world.

Despot

Enlightened ________:: Rulers who were considered Absolutist but used ideas of the Enlightenment.

Inductive Reasoning

________:: Observations to come up with a general principle.

18th century

Enlightenment:: The thought movement of the ________ as well as the reaction to Reformation and Age of Absolutism.

Separation of powers

Montesquieu:: Political rights, ________.

Importance of Reading

________:: Books spread the ideas to the literate elite.

Geocentric

Belief that the Earth is the center

Heliocentric

Belief that the sun is the center

Universal Law of Gravitation

Theories introduced by Sir Isaac Newton

Rationalism

Theory that opinion and actions are based on reason

Scientific Method

Procedure of answering questions based on observation, measurement, experiment, etc

Inductive Reasoning

Observations to come up with a general principle

National Philosophers

Middle Age Scientists, Supporters of Aristotles Theories

Nicolaus Copernicus

(Polish) Suggested that the sun was at the center

Johannes Kepler

(German) Movement of planets

Galileo Galilei

( Italian) Many advancements in Astronomy

Isaac Newton

(English) Various laws of Math and Science

Margret Cavendish

(English) Writer, interest in Natural philosophy

Maria Winkelmann

(German) Astronomer

Rene Descartes

(French) Philosopher and Mathematician

Francis Bacon

(English) Explained the scientific method

Enlightenment

The thought movement of the 18th century as well as the reaction to Reformation and Age of Absolutism

Influencers of the Enlightenment

Scientific Revolution and Renaissance

Growth in thought, Belief in progress and the individual, Influences American and French Revolutions

Effects of Enlightenment

John Locke

Pushed for political rights, believed that everyone was born with a blank mind

Montesquieu

Political rights, Separation of powers

Voltaire

"Greatest Figure of the Enlightenment", Prolific writer

Diderot

Created the Encyclopedia

Adam Smith

"Father of modern economics"

Laissez-farie

"let the people do what they want."

Cesare Beccaria

Advanced justice system

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Created the idea of the Social Contract that the people allow their rulers to be in power

Mary Wollstonecraft

Pushed for womens rights

Importance of Reading

Books spread the ideas to the literate elite

25

Amount of Periodicals available in 1700

158

Amount of Periodicals available in 1780

Salons

elegant meeting places where wealthy upper and middle class people had conversations over the issues of the day

Merchants

The people who took ideas around the world

John Wesley

Creator of Methodism

Philosophers

People who attack the ideas of the church

Enlightened Despot

Rulers who were considered Absolutist but used ideas of the Enlightenment

Fredrick the Great

Enlightened Despot who ruled Prussia

Joseph II

Enlightened Despot who ruled the Holy Roman Empire

Catherine the Great

Enlightened Despot who ruled Russia

Baroque and Neoclassical

Music from this time

Bach, Handel, Mozart

Writers of Music from this time

True

Buildings become grand, influenced by Greece and Rome

More are reading

Cause, writers are writing more novels