Chapter 16 & 17 Flashcards
What was the Pride’s Purge u-y
A movement to make the Parliament purely puritan
What is Autocracy u-y
a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
what was Essay Concerning Human Understanding
important work by John Locke
Who is Francis Bacon
English philosopher and lord chancellor under James the I
Who was Paracelsus
Swiss physician and alchemist who pioneered the use of chemicals in medicine
Who wrote on the structure of the human body
Andreas Vesalius
Who completed the Rudolphine tables
Johannes Kepler
Who compiled the the data for the Rudolphine tables
Tycho Brahe
Organization that supported Francis Bacon
England’s Royal society
Who wrote the Principa Mathmatica
Sir Issac Newton
French philosopher and author of Candid
Voltaire
Author of the Persian Letter
Montesquie
Montesquieu wrote this pamphlet about the tyranny of absolutism in France and compared many different governments
Spirit of Law
what early enlightenment author was excommunicated from his Jewish community for a belief in a deterministic universe
Spinoza
who wrote Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697)
Pierre Bayle
who was a Central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment
and wrote Of Natural Characters
David Hume