Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution

Question 1

Scientists were after_______when enlightenment thinkers were after________.

Answer 1

the laws of nature, the laws of government/society

Question 2

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 2

Social Contract

Question 3

Social Contract

Answer 3

Agree to give up a certain amount of freedoms for the government to protect you.

Question 4

John Locke

Answer 4

Empiricism. Gov’s purpose: life,liberty, pursuit of property.

Question 5

Tabulo Rosa

Answer 5

Knowledge obtained through life experiences and senses.

Question 6

Natural Rights Empiricism

Answer 6

The belief that knowledge is innate.

Question 7

Voltaire

Answer 7

Against government censorship. Absolute ruler. Diest

Question 8

Diest

Answer 8

God doesn’t involve himself in our affairs. The clock was wound.

Question 9

Montesquieu

Answer 9

Separation of powers. America 1st country to use

Question 10

Rousseau

Answer 10

Social contract. Believes in human rights

Question 11

Justice System

Answer 11

Believes in executions but has to be humane

Question 12

Copernicus

Answer 12

Published Heliocentric theory

Question 13

Newton

Answer 13

Published law of gravity

Question 14

Heliocentric Theory

Answer 14

Everything revolves around sun

Question 15

Vesalius

Answer 15

Published 1st human anatomy textbook. 1st to dissect human corpses

Question 16

Leeuwenhoek

Answer 16

Observed bacteria through microscope, helped understand diseases

Question 17

Fahrenheit

Answer 17

Invents mercury thermometer

Question 18

Academy of Sciences

Answer 18

Welcomed scientists

Question 19

Boyle

Answer 19

Boyle’s law: Volume increase, pressure decrease

Question 20

Royal society

Answer 20

First thing to support science

Question 21

Torricelli

Answer 21

Invented barometer

Question 22

Descartes

Answer 22

Book discourse on method, set forth official sci. method

Question 23

Harvey

Answer 23

How human heart functions:

1. Pumps
2. Blood vessels

Question 24

Innate

Answer 24

Unleash information, born with it

Question 25

Empiricism

Answer 25

Learn through experiences and senses

Question 26

Bacon

Answer 26

Scientific Method, empiricism

Question 27

Beccaria

Answer 27

Justice system

Question 28

Vesalius

Answer 28

Published 1st human anatomy textbook. 1st to dissect human corpses

Question 29

Brahe

Answer 29

Discovers new star, Nova, universe if not constant, always changing

Question 30

Jansen

Answer 30

Invented microscope

Question 31

Kepler

Answer 31

Publishes 1st 2 laws of planetary motion:

1. Proved mathematically that we revolve around the sun
2. We don’t go in a full circle;

Question 32

Galileo

Answer 32

Published “Starry Messenger”. Law of pendulum. Faced inquisition from the church because he supported Descartes

Question 33

Law of Pendulum

Answer 33

Transfer of energy, fall at same rate