Enlightenment Crossword

5. professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, wrote Principia, defined three laws of motion that govern the planetary bodies, including the universal law of gravitation, it created a new picture of the universe
6. English philosopher with few scientific credentials yet developed the crucial scientific method
9. the most famous philosophe of the later Enlightenment, didn't like city life, wrote Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind, argued that people made laws and government to preserve their private property but had become enslaved by the government, made the Social Contract
12. taught mathematics, first European to make regular observations of the heavens using a telescope, found out that there are mountains on Earth's moon, four moons orbit Jupiter, and that there are sunspots on the sun
13. French philosopher who came up with rationalism, emphasized the importance of his mind and accepted only the things that his reason said were true his famous quote is, "I think, therefore I am"
15. a child prodigy, first harpsichord concert at six, wrote his first opera at twelve, The Marrriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni are three of Mozart's greatest operas, Haydn told his father that he was the greatest composer known to him, couldn't get a regular patron's support financially which made his life miserable

1. a time in which people and philosophers tried to use reason and the scientific method to discover more about the universe or to help fix societal problems
2. a German mathematician, made the three laws of planetary motion using very detailed astronomical data from very detailed observations
3. wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding, argued that everyone was born with a blank mind, people were molded by their experiences, many Enlightenment thinkers started thinking this way
4. published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, came up with the heliocentric view of the universe, thought it offered a more accurate explanation of the universe than the Ptolemaic system
7. a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence, crucial to the evolution of science in the modern world
8. Someone who studies wisdom and/or loves to study
10. a model of the universe in which the sun was at the center of the universe, all the planets including Earth orbited the sun
11. a model of the universe in which the Earth was at the center of the universe while all the other planets and the sun orbited the Earth, there were ten spheres surrounding the universe, outside of those was supposedly heaven with God in it
14. a system of thought that is based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge