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Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

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Gathered tons of data; proposed system of moon and sun rotating around the Earth
Brahe
one who believes that God created the universe and then stepped bck from creation to allow it operate under the laws of science
deist
Cogito Ergo Sum
Descartes
Disagreed with teacher (Brahe); elliptical
Kepler
Natural Law- science
Newton
Discourse on Method
Descartes
Checks and balances of power
Montesquieu
Swiss Educational Thinker
Pestalozzi
Earth is in perpetual motion
Galileo
Natural Law- society
Locke
International Law/Court System
Grotius
"All men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains."
Rousseau
Combined all motion ideas
Newton
Use reason to probe for answers
Kant
Senses
Bacon
Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu
"Noble savage"
Rousseau
Empiricism
Bacon
Women's rights
Molly Wallstinecraft
Prison reform
Beccaria
places where philosophes would go to share ideas
salons
Tabula Rasa
Locke
Designed new telescope
Galileo
Natural Law- economics
Smith
circulation of blood studies
Harvey
Dr Pangloss
Leibnitz
a person who is naturally good and intelligent by living outside of formal culture
Noble savage
Counter-Enlightenment
Rousseau, Hume, Kant
Encyclopedia
Diderot and D'Almbert
Believed in religion but saw no need for a church
Rousseau
Candide
Voltaire
Against the idea that all knowledge was empirical
Kant
He reasoned that the body could be divided up by removing a leg or arm, but the mind or soul were indivisible.
Cartesian Dualism
2nd Treatise on Civil Government
Locke
Using reason to go from a general principle to the specific principle
Descartes
Physiocrat
Quesnay
One of the first atheists
d'Holbach
Introduced Locke's ideas to France
Voltaire
Critique of Pure Reason
Kant
Absolutism (no divine right)
Hobbes
Solved motion issue in the skies
Kepler
General Will
Rousseau
Essay on Human Understanding
Locke
Solved problem of manner in which the planets revolved around the sun
Newton
any of a school of economists founded in 18th-century France and characterized chiefly by a belief that government policy should not interfere with the operation of natural economic laws and that land is the source of all wealth . I
Physiocrat
Principia
Newton
Ecrasez l'infame
Crush the horrible thing
Wanted equality of rights for persons of different religions
Voltaire
On Crimes and Punishments
Beccaria
Inductive thinking
Bacon
The Social Contract
Rousseau
Emile
Rousseau
Deductive Reasoning
Descartes
head of British Royal Society
Newton
Discovered moon had mountainous surface
Galileo
"Dare to know"
Kant
Solved motion issue on Earth
Galileo
States were needed to restrain humans from destroying one another
Hobbes
Cast complete doubt on revealed religion; argued that no empirical evidence supported the existence of those miracles that stood at the heart of Christian tradition
Hume
Heliocentric theory
Copernicus
Translated Principia into French
Madame du Chatelet
Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Copernicus
"Godfathers of modern scientific thinking
Bacon and Descartes
Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Smith
Rationalism
Descartes
Leviathan
Hobbes
Calculus
Newton
Separation of powers
Montesquieu
Works led to the French Revolution
Rousseau
thinkers of the age
philosophes
laissez-faire
hands off
Novum Organum
Bacon
Inquiry into Human Nature
Hume
Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World
Galileo
Social contract
Locke
Categorical imperative
Kant
Persian Letters
Montesquieu
anatomy studies
Vesaillus
Gave intellectual development for founders of US
Locke
watchmaker
Paley

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