The Scientific Revolution And The Enlightenment

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Polish clergyman and astronomer, challenged the geocentric view of the universe

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Aristotle and Alexandrian both believed in the

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Geocentric theory

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Theroy that the earth revolves around the sun, which was the center of the universe

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Heliocentric view

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Formulated the three laws of planetary motion

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Johannes Kepler

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First to discover irrefutable proof of heliocentric theory

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Galileo Galilei

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Accuses Galileo of meddling with dangerous subjects

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Pope urban VII

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Advocated an inductive method for scientific explanation

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Francis bacon

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Advocated a deductive method for the search for truth

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Rene Descartes

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Two methods resulting in the logical creation of the scientific method

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Rene Descartes deductive reasoning and Francis bacons inductive reasoning

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Scientists organized societies in order to

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Promote the research and spread of scientific knowledge

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Scientific society’s helped create

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An international scientific community

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Issac newtons principal combine

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Keplers laws of planetary motion, Galileo’s laws of inertia an falling bodies, and newtons own conception of gravity

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Groups of thinkers and writers who espoused enlightened ideas

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Philosophies

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Believed god was a “cosmic watchmaker” and he let the universe run on natural laws

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Deists

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Deism was generally embraced by

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Educated elites in Western Europe and America

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Deism had little appeal to many people because if its

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Lack of emotion and reliance on reason

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Pietism stressed beliefs of

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Faith, emotion and religion in the heart

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Prince of the philosophies

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Voltaire

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Voltaire criticized France’s

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Ridged government

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Voltaire denounced

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Religious bigotry

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Voltaire directed most of his criticism towards

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Intolerance of organized Christianity, both Protestants and Catholics

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“Crush the infamous thing” stated by Voltaire is directed towards

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Enemies if reason and religious tolerance

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Goal to bring together science, technology, mathematics, arts, an government or “all things”

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Denis Diderot

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Disseminated enlightened thinking across Europe and both America, undermined established authority

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Encyclopedia

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Attempted to create a "social science" by applying methods of natural sciences to the study of government, best represented in his "Spirit of the Laws"

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Montesquieu concluded that the ideal government was divided into

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Executive legislative and judicial branches

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Montesquieu's ideas of separated powers were meant to

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Protect the rights of individuals

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Separation of powers had a great influence on

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The American constitution

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Presented ideas on education in the mid 18th century

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Emile by jean Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau argued a ____________ should replace ridged schooling

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Natural education

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Rousseau argued individuals enter a social contract with

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One another

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Rousseau's ideas of social contracts created a

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Community or organized civil society

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Rousseau beloved sovereign power of the state should lie with the

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General will of the community

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Rousseau distrusted reason and science and embraced

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Emotions

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Voltaire generally supported

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Religious tolerance

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Voltaire generally opposed

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Superstition and ignorance

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Rousseau's ideas of education are presented in his novel

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Emile

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General will

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Sovereign power of state lies with community

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French economic reformers

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Physiocrats

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Physiocrats questioned

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Mercantilist principles

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Physiocrats argued that governments should follow a

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Laissez faire policy

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Laissez fair policy

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Noninterference with the economy

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Most influential advocate of laissez faire economics

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Adam smith

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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke argued that individuals enter a social contract with

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Their rulers