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Theory says that the sun is the center of the universe

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Heliocentric

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Reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion called

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Inductive reasoning

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Philosophy says that everything is part of one great substance called “God”

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Pantheism

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“All knowledge comes through experience” expresses which philosophy

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Empiricism

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The eighteenth-century social critics know who disrespected church tradition

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Philosophers

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The eighteenth-century American revival called

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Great awakening

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Term is applied to music with several intertwined melody lines

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Polyphony

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Wrote “ decline and fall of the Roman Empire” out spoken critic of Christianity

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Gibbon

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French comedies

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Moliere

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School of thought supported the existence of God as creator but denied his involvement in human affairs

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Deism

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Art style that was dramatic, turbulent, and sensual

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Baroque

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“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

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Pope

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Wrote Gulliver’s travels

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Swift

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Wrote “Robinson crusoe”

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Defoe

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These are associated with the artist; musical, operas & symphonies, and instrumental & chamber music

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Mozart

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Heliocentric theory

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Copernicus

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Telescopes improvements

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Galileo

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Chemicals used to treat disease

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Paracelsus

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Circulation of blood

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Harvey

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Vaccination

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Jenner

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The framers of the U.S. Constitution borrowed his idea of separation of powers

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Montesquieu

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Gathering observations, finding a pattern in the observations, choosing and appropriate conclusion to explain the observations

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Scientific method

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Father of modern chemistry

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Lavoisier

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Was a mapmaker

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Mercator

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Microscope improvements

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Leeuwenhoek

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Deductive reasoning

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Descartes

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Inductive reasoning

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Bacon

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Both men were Englishman hymn writers, and preachers

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Isaac Watts & Charles Wesley

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The chief means for spreading the ideas of the philosophes

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Encyclope’die

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He was credited for invention of the reflecting telescope, laws of gravitation, and principia

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Sir Isaac Newton

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It says increasing pressure on a gas reduces its volume

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Boyle’s law

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Discovered the chemical substances of ammonia, oxygen, and carbon dioxide

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Priestly

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Eighteenth-century intellectual movement

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Enlightenment

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The belief that sees reason as the only sure source of knowledge and truth

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Rationalism

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Known for figures that are elongated

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El Greco

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A combination of vocal and instrumental music telling s sacred story

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Oratorio

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Art style expressed the orderly, formal, and balanced approach of the enlightenment

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Neoclassical

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Dutch painter was known for his effect of contrasting light with dark

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Rembrandt

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Maintained that the “general will” meant majority rule

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Social contract

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List & describe two pilosophes of the enlightenment

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Diderot- he edited the encyclopedie, the chief instrument for spreading the ideas of the philosophies. He wrote several hundred articles for the multivolume work.
Rousseau- although he was a friend to the other philosophes, he was out of step with most of them. He favored emotion and sentiment above reason. (Father of romanticism)

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Describe the results that John Wesley’s work and the work of others like him had on Britain

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Spiritual revival broke the apathetic attitude among professing Christians. More domestic reform and foreign missions. Helped improve moral condition of England and restrain social upheaval.

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