Revolutions in Thinking

1. Philosopher that promoted the “Social Contract” theory between people and their government
8. The philosophy that government gets its right to exist and govern by the “consent of the governed.”
9. Intellectuals of the 18th-century Enlightenment who applied reason to the study of many areas of learning, including philosophy, history, science, politics, economics, and social issues.
12. a method of observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
13. French writer who was outspoken in his religious, political, and social liberty beliefs especially the right to freedom of speech.

2. During the Enlightenment, a place where women were given the opportunity for limited interaction with Enlightenment ideas and to meet for intellectual discussion.
3. A book of knowledge created during the Enlightenment aimed "to change the way people think" and for people to be able to inform themselves and to know things.
4. A theory, rejected by modern science, that maintained that the Earth was the center of the universe.
5. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars.
6. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
7. political philosopher who promoted the “3 branches of government:” the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
10. theory that maintains that the sun is the center of the solar system.
11. One of the most famous philosophers of the Enlightenment who promoted the idea of people having “natural rights” from the law of nature.