Enlightenment And Scientific Revolution

Question 1

What was the scientific revolution?

Answer 1

Modern science became the new way of gaining knowledge about natural world/ theory about the natural world and devolved procedures to test those ideas

Question 2

Who was the scientist who propose the universal law of gravitation

Answer 2

Isaac newton

Question 3

What invention did Gaileo develop? how did this invention helpe Galileo discovery

Answer 3

 improve telescope and help him observe moons of Jupiter, rings of Saturn, the phases of Venus sunspots and rugged Lunar surfaces

Question 4

What are natural rights? Who came up with the idea of natural rights and who is supposed to provide you with these rights?

Answer 4

Rights that come naturally, ones that you are born with. Government protects one’s natural rights. Life liberty and pursuit of happiness. John Locke came up with natural rights

Question 5

Which philosopher propose the idea of separation of powers? Explain what separation of powers is

Answer 5

Montesquieu. The executive legislative and judicial powers of the government limit and control each other in a system of checks and balances.

Question 6

What ideas did Rouusseau propose?

Answer 6

Believe the idea of having a social contract so the government can protect peoples natural rights. If government didn’t protect, people had the right to rebel because government gets rights to rule by people. 

Question 7

What ideas did Mary Wollstonecraft propose?

Answer 7

She proposed that because the enlightenment was based on an idea of reason in all human. woman should have the same rights as men

Question 8

What ideas did Voltaire propose

Answer 8

He propose that God created the universe set it in motion and allowed it to run without any interference according to its natural laws. Believed in freedom of religion, freedom of expression and separation of church and state