STUDY Flashcards
A(n) ___ is a believer whose views clash with established beliefs.
heretic
Who wrote The Wealth of Nations, a book encouraging free markets, division of labor, and increased productivity?
Adam Smith
How did the Hindu-Arabic number system help mathematicians and scientists?
It made calculations much easier than the Roman number system.
The Protestant Reformation began when he nailed his 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg.
Martin Luther
Building microscopes allowed him to discover bacteria in a previously unseen world.
Antonie van leeuwenhoek
“I think, therefore I am” gave him certitude that existence is real.
Rene Descartes
This Polish scientist described a heliocentric universe in his book On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres.
Nicolaus Copernicus
A reformer in Geneva, he wrote The Institutes and created a governing body called the Consistory.
John Clavin
Inspired to improve on Aristotle’s methods, he developed the Scientific Method.
Roger Bacon
Christians who protested Roman Catholic beliefs and actions came to be known as ___.
Protestants
The ____ were intellectuals who rejected traditional Christian views and placed faith in human reason instead.
philosophes
Which French philosophe supported freedom of religion despite criticizing the Roman Catholic Church?
Voltaire
The Council of Trent during the Counter-Reformation only served to ___.
reinforce differences between Protestants and Catholics
A(n) ___ combined the study of medicine, science, art, mysticism, and astrology.
alchemy
Who believed that the mind began as a blank tablet but could be developed through reason?
John Locke
