People of The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
Across
- 2. Social gatherings where people discussed Enlightenment ideas.
- 9. Writer who criticized science and argued women should be educated.Work: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
- 12. Enlightenment thinker who argued people have natural rights.Work: Two Treatises of Governmen
- 14. Dividing government into branches to limit power.
- 16. Thinker who believed government should reflect the will of the people.Work: The Social Contract
- 17. Early chemist who studied gases and helped form modern chemistry.Work: Boyle’s Law
- 18. Economist who supported free markets and competition.Work: The Wealth of Nations
- 19. Political thinker who argued for separation of powers.Work: The Spirit of the Laws
- 20. Philosopher who believed reason was the key to knowledge.Work: Discourse on Method
Down
- 1. Writer who argued women should have equal rights and education.Work: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- 3. Doctor who used human dissection to accurately study anatomy.Work: On the Fabric of the Human Body
- 4. Enlightenment thinkers who used reason to improve society.Voltaire
- 5. Ancient doctor whose medical ideas shaped European medicine for centuries.Work: Medical writings based on animal anatomy
- 6. Scientist who explained how motion and gravity work.Work: Principia Mathematica
- 7. Promoted the scientific method based on observation and experiments.Work: Novum Organum
- 8. Astronomer who discovered a comet but was denied recognition because she was a woman.Work: Astronomical calendars and comet observations
- 10. Mathematician and scientist who studied probability and pressure.Work:Pensées
- 11. Philosophe who helped spread knowledge through the Encyclopedia.Work: Encyclopedia
- 13. Belief that government should stay out of the economy.
- 15. Writer who helped develop the modern novel and used satire.Work: Tom Jones