Enlightenment People

Question 1

Scientific Method

Answer 1

Francis Bacon

Question 2

Analytical Geometry

Answer 2

Renea de Cartes

Question 3

First to propose Heliocentric Theory

Answer 3

Nicolas Copernicus

Question 4

Proves Heliocentric Theory, Orbits of planets were ellipses NOT circles

Answer 4

Johannes Kepler

Question 5

Used improved telescope to study Sun (spots), Moon (rocky) and 4 moons of Jupiter

Answer 5

Galileo Galilei

Question 6

Law of Gravity and Motion

Answer 6

Isaac Newton

Question 7

Created vaccine for smallpox

Answer 7

Edward Jenner

Question 8

“Father of Chemistry”

Answer 8

Robert Boyle

Question 9

Dissection of body and published his observations

Answer 9

Andreas Vesulius

Question 10

Real name Francois-Marie Arouet. Freedom of speech and religion

Answer 10

Voltaire

Question 11

Separation of powers/branches of government

Answer 11

Montesquieu

Question 12

Direct democracy from the people, Social Contract

Answer 12

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question 13

Speedy Trials, No torture, No Capital Punishment

Answer 13

Cesare Bonesanna Beccia

Question 14

Author, rights of women, education of both men and women

Answer 14

Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 15

Life, Liberty and Property, favored self-government

Answer 15

John Locke

Question 16

Best form of government comes from Absolute Monarch as people are greedy and selfish

Answer 16

Thomas Hobbes

Question 17

Encyclopedia: Set of knowledge

Answer 17

Denis Diderot

Question 18

Musician of classical music

Answer 18

Franz Joseph Haydn

Question 19

Musician of classical music

Answer 19

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 20

Musician of classical music

Answer 20

Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 21

Informed Despot from Prussia, religious freedoms

Answer 21

Fredrick the Great

Question 22

Informed Despot, Freedom of press and religion

Answer 22

Joseph II

Question 23

Informed Despot from Russia

Answer 23

Catherine the Great