Chapter 21 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. elegant urban drawing rooms.
- 4. an alteration proposed or effected by parliamentary or constitutional procedure
- 5. method, a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence that was crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world.
- 9. sun moon and other planets revolve around earth.
- 11. sovereignty, the right to govern through the consent of the people.
- 13. one that follows especially one who takes over a throne, title, estate, or office.
- 14. law of gravitation, one of Newton's three laws of motion.
- 15. the concept that the state should not impose government regulations.
- 17. an 18th century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law.
- 18. an artistic style that replaced baroque in the 1730's.
- 20. reasoning, the doctrine that scientists should proceed from the particular to the general by making systematic observations.
Down
- 1. a group of individuals born and living at the same time.
- 3. at one's discretion; random
- 6. the theory that says knowledge is achieved through observation.
- 7. earth and planets revolve around earth.
- 8. french for "Philosopher"
- 10. contract, the concept that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general.
- 12. a system of thought expounded by Rene Descartes based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge.
- 16. of powers, a form of government in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches limit and control each other through a system of checks and balances.
- 19. system, a form of government in which power is shared between the national and state governments.