Enlightenment Thinkers and Scientific Revolution Scientists (Inventors and Inventions)

Enlightenment Thinkers

An intellectual movement that applied new ways of thinking, using rationalism and empicirist approaches to both the natural world and huamn relationships

Thomas Hobbes

people are driven to self-interest (humans are selfish argument) and form societies to protect themselves

John Locke

Natural Rights (the right to Life, Liberty, and property) and form a government through the social contract based on consent of governed (LIMITED GOVERNMENT)

Montesquieu

Separation of Power (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial)

Voltaire

Separation of Church and state, religious tolerance, and freedom of speech

Rousseau

Conept of social contract where citizens give freedoms for common good, and the idea of majority rules (DEMOCRACY)

Wollstonecraft

Women should have the same rights as men and advocated for access to education to women

Olympe de Gouges

Rewrote the Declaration of the Right of Women and Citizens, being a play on words from the declaration from the French Revolution. And wants women to have equal education as men and professional opportunities (mostly in political setting)

Sciencific Revolution

the discovery of scientific thinking and invention that transformed societies in nature

Gutenberg

printing press (increased spread of information(

Galieo

Telescope (showed that the earth revoled around the sun and opposed to the church ideas)

Copernicus

he opposed the church’s idea of geocenteric theory and mathematically found that the sun is in the center of the universe (heliocenteric theory) with the help from Johannes Kepler

Isaac Newton

proved gravity (3 laws of motion)

Marie Curie

Radioactivity (her foundations were used for x-rays)

Louis Pasueter

Germ Theory and disease (microbiology) AND PASTUERAZED MILK

Watt

Steam engine (steamship and industrial machinarys)

Bolye

Chemistry (Boyle’s Laws) revealed a relationship between pressure and volume of gases.

Thomas Edison

Lightbulbs, motion pictures, and phonograph

Vesalius

science of anatomy

Harvey

found that the circulation of blood goes back to the heart

Bacon

scientific method (have an idea executed through experiments with same steps to lead to the consistent conclusion)