Ch 16 Toward a New Worldview

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Across
  1. 2. a law by Galileo that states that motion, not rest, is the natural state of an object
  2. 4. term coined by historians to describe the rule of the late 17th/18th century monarchs who, without renouncing their own absolute authority, adopted enlightenment ideals of rationalism, progress, and tolerance
  3. 5. a secular, critical way of thinking in which nothing was to be accepted on faith and everything was to be submitted to reason
  4. 7. regular social gathering held by talented and rich Parisians in their home; meetings to discuss literature, science, and philosophy
  5. 9. view that monarchy was the best form of government, that all elements of society should serve the monarch, and in return, the state should use its resources and authority to increase the public good
  6. 10. an early modern term for the study of the nature of the inverse, its purpose and how it functioned; what we call science today
  7. 11. an idealized intellectual space that emerged in Europe during the enlightenment where the public came together to discuss important issues related to science and philosophy
  8. 12. the Jewish Enlightenment of the second half of the 18th century, led by the Prussian philosopher Moses Mendelssohn
  9. 13. the influential intellectual and cultural movement that introduced the use of reason, the scientific method, and progress
  10. 14. a popular style in Europe known for it's soft pastels, ornate interiors, and sentimental portraits
  11. 15. belief in a distant, noninterventionist deity, common among enlightenment thinkers
  12. 16. the idea that all human ideas and thoughts are produced as a result of sensory impressions
Down
  1. 1. a law by Newton that states all objects are attracted to one another and that the force of attraction is proportional to the objects' quantity of matter
  2. 3. a group of French intellectuals who proclaimed that they were brining the light of knowledge to their fellow humans in the age of enlightenment
  3. 6. the idea that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe
  4. 8. Descartes's view that all of reality could ultimately be reduced to mind and matter