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- Kepler
- Astronmer who discovered planets move in elliptical orbits
- Locke
- Englishman who believed government should protect the natural rights of people
- Voltaire
- French philosophe who urged religous toleration
- Newton
- invented calculus, discovered the law of gravity
- Harvey
- English doctor who studied blood circulation
- Rousseau
- French philosophe who believed all people are equal
- Bach
- is best known for his religious music
- Descartes
- "I think, therefore I am."
- Diderot
- French philosophe who assembled a 35 volume Encyclopedia
- Montesquieu
- French noble who discussed the separation of powers
- Philosophe
- thinker who believed that progress would be brought about by science and reason
- physiocrat
- thinker who believed that the land was the true source of wealth
- free market
- the selling and buying of goods without restrictions
- enlightened monarch/despot
- riler concerned with the welfare of the people
- salon
- informal gathering of writers and artists
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the scientific method was first developed by Aristotle - false
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The law of gravity states that blood circulates through the body - false
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Many scholars rejected the teachings of Copernicus because they thought Ptolemy and other ancient philosophers could net have been wrong - true
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The author of Leviathan was John Locke - false
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The center of philosophe activity was Paris - true
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In the Social Contract, Rousseau argues that people could never be equal - false
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Rousseau said that human nature was basically good, but people were corrupted by living society - true
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During the Enlightenment many philosophers thought that people have natural rights - true
- The scientific method is based on...
- experimentation and observation
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not apart of scientific method:
a. observation c. reason
b. eperiment d. reliance on authority - d. reliance on authority
- Copernicus stated that...
- the earth and planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits
- what is Sir Isaac Newton associated with
- law of gravity, calculus