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- Diderot
- "The philosopher forms his principles upon an infinity of individual observations." (1750)
- Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera
- a Rococo painting about people and their lovers
- Deism
- the concept of a god creating the universe, but stopping at that
- Wollstonecraft
- "... if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue..." (1800)
- Holbach
- "The civilized man, is he whom experience and social life have enabled to draw from nature the means of his own happiness..." (1775)
- Copernicus
- the first astronomer to consider the heliocentric system
- Bach
- a German "master of styles"
- sonata
- musical form of an essay
- Voltaire
- "The English constitution has, in fact, arrived at that point of excellence, in consequence of which all men are restored to their natural rights, which, in nearly all monarchies, they are deprived of." (1775)
- program music
- music with a story, instrumental word painting
- Messiah
- Handel's most famous oratorio
- Newton
- the "synthesiser" who came up with the law of universal gravitation
- Anderson & Zinsser
- "In the salon, a woman could meet and marry a man of superior social rank or wealth." (1988)
- public sphere
- idea of free discussion/debate
- Thomas Paine
- "My own mind is my own church." (1800)
- Ptolemy
- an early astronomer who came up with Epicycles - the solar system is composed of bodies moving in small irregular patterns
- Watteau
- "Island of Cythera" painter
- Rousseau
- an early Illuminatus who believed in democracy
- Scholasticism
- the pre-scientific revolution attempt to bring together science and religion
- counterpoint
- in fugue, the eventual harmonization of the parts
- Descartes
- a philosopher who tried to connect existence and thought (breaking a few big laws of philosophy while at it)
- subject
- the melody of a fugue
- Mozart
- a total musical beast who wrote like 600 pieces in his 35 years
- Handel
- a British opera composer
- Kepler
- the astronomer who proved Copernicus's idea
- Tycho Brahe
- the first astronomer to have an observatory (and perhaps my favorite scientist as well)
- Night Watch
- Rembrandts militia (1650)
- Louis XV
- the French king who decided to move from Versailles to Paris
- castrato
- a singer in the most popular group of Baroque opera
- Fragonard
- "The Swing" painter
- Descartes
- "The first rule was never to receive anything as a truth which I did not clearly know to be such." (1625)
- Immanuel Kant
- "Through laziness and cowardice a large part of manking, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance gladly remain immature." (1775)
- Newton
- "We are to admit no more causes of natural thigns than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." (1700)
- Galileo
- "Having arrived at any certanties in physics, we ought to utilize these as the most appropriate aids in the true exposition of the Bible and in the investigation of those meanings which are necessarily contained herein, for these must be concordant with demonstrated truths." (1615)
- oratorio
- a type of religious (old testament), less theatrical opera
- walking bass
- bass that plays in equal units
- Boucher
- "Cupid Held A-Captive" painter
- Hogarth
- English satirical painter of aristocracy
- Rousseau
- "Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole." (1750)
- Freemasons
- a secret Enlightenment society, a predecessor of the modern-day Illuminati
- Vermeer
- a Dutch genre painter
- Obama
- the 44th president of the United States
- Montegiueu
- liked the English idea of govt.