Scientific Rev. & Enlightenment People Flashcards
Who created the theory that the planets moved around the sun?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe did what?
Charted the position of the stars
Set examples of record keeping
True or False?
Gallileo Galillei discovered that planets moved in elliptical orbit. His ideas are still accepted today.
False
Johanes Kepler discovered that the planets moved in elliptical orbit. His ideas are still accepted.
Who created the Scientific Method?
Sir Francis Bacon
Who theories about gravity are now laws and proves the light was made up of colors?
Sir Isaac Newton
Galileo Galleli was
A scientific inventor and used experiments to study science.
Voltairs said and believed in
Humans wee in charge of their own happiness
Spoke out against censorship
Freedom of thought
Who believed that government should be divided up into seperately branches?
Charles-Louis Montesquieu
Jean Jaque Rousseu believed that
Government should be based on the ill of the people
In a social contract between people and government
Who believed that All people had natural rights and that government should be limited?
John Locke
