Chapter 10 Crossword
Across
- 2. Child prodigy; Wrote The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni, which were three of the world's greatest operas
- 6. Englishman; argued that every person was born with a tabula rasa, or blank mind
- 8. Famous philosphe of the later Enlightenment; Social Contract, where an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will; believed that women were naturally different from men
- 9. English philosopher; inductive reasoning; invented the Scientific Method
- 10. Earth is at the center of the universe; Ptolemy's idea
- 11. a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence
- 13. Someone who studies wisdom, love to study
- 15. French philosopher; emphasized the importance of his own mind; would only accept those things that his reason said were true; Mind over matter; father of modern rationalism
Down
- 1. Based on the belief that the reason is the chief source of knowledge
- 3. Mathematician; first European to observe the heavens using the telescope; discovered mountains on the moon, four moons revolving around Jupiter, and sunspots; The Starry Messenger; was forced to abandon the Copernican idea by the Catholic church
- 4. German mathematician; confirmed that the sun was at the center; the planets orbited in an elliptical motion, rather than circular
- 5. Native of Poland; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres; mathematician; thought that the universe was heliocentric
- 7. Wrote Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, also call the Principia; defined the three laws of motion; Universal law of Gravitation
- 12. a period when philosophers believed thay they could apply the scientific method and use reason to explain human nature logically
- 14. The sun is at the center of the universe; Copernicus's idea