Module 4 Flashcards
When was the Enlightenment?
1690-1789
What was the Enlightenment?
Intellectual movement emphasizes reason and individualism rather than tradition.
What was Scientific Revolution?
Showed humans can use critical thinking and reason to answer questions, problem solve, and improve life.
What is laissez faire?
Free trade and enterprise.
What is heliocentric?
The measurement of how the Earth and planets revolve around the sun.
What is geocentric?
The measurement of how the Earth is the center of the universe and the planets revolve around the Earth.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Italian scientist who built his own telescope and was the first to see different planets in our solar system.
Who was Isaac Newton?
English scientist who explained how objects were attracted to the center of the Earth because of gravity.
Who was Carl Linnaeus?
Swedish physician who discovered modern classification for organisms.
Who was Nicholas Copernicus?
Polish cleric who challenged the geocentric model of the universe despite Christian teachings. Created a heliocentric model of universe.
Who is Francis Bacon?
English scientist who is considered the father of the scientific revolution and stated how science needed to be proved through experiments rather than tradition.
Who is Paracelsus?
Swiss scientist proposing that illness is a result of chemical imbalances in the body. Therefore illness could be treated with chemicals such as medicines and drugs.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
Flemish physician dissected human bodies in order to perfect the study of human anatomy.
Who was John Locke?
Was English and published Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690. People have the right to overthrow an unjust government and establish a new one, with a strong legislative branch.
Who was Voltaire?
French and adopted his pen name and became a prolific writer. He remains among the leading historical supporters of tolerance. nfluenced many other writers and thinkers (and political leaders) of his day. Wrote popular satire (Candide) to criticize French gov’t and Catholic Church.
