Vocab - Religion And Science Flashcards
Protestant reformation
a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s by Protestants
Martin Luther
a German priest, theologian, author, professor, and figure of the Protestant reformation
Thirty years war
(1618–1648) a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons that began as a religious war between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany
The counter reformation
efforts in the 16th and early 17th centuries to oppose the Protestant Reformation and reform the Catholic Church
Jesuits in China
“Society of Jesus” made efforts to translate western mathematical and astronomical works into Chinese in china
Whhabi Islam
a reformist movement within Sunni Islam that advocated a purification of Islam, rejects some islamic theology, and calls for strict adherence to the letter of the Koran and hadith
Kaozheng
a school and approach to study and research in the Qing dynasty of China from about 1600 to 1850
The dream of the red chamber
a Chinese novel composed by Cao Xueqin in the mid-18th century and accounts the Chinese expression of many religions
Sikhism
Indian religion and philosophy that originated in the Punjab region of South Asia, around the end of the 15th century
Scientific revolutions
a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period with developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry
Copernicus
a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the Sun is the center of the solar system and that the planets circle the Sun
Galileo
Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer
European enlightenment
an intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that sought to improve society through fact-based reason and inquiry
Voltaire
a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian
Condorcet
French philosopher and mathematician of the Enlightenment and advocate of educational reform and women’s rights
