The Renaissance : Enlightenment and scientific people

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Across
  1. 3. fought for freedom of and speech campaigned against corruption, religious intolerance , and the slave trade
  2. 4. believed people had a right to pursue truth and knowledge
  3. 5. Believed that people were born good but were curupted by society
  4. 6. argued that women are not inferior to men but should be treated equally
  5. 9. Used brahes data to argue 3 laws of planetary motion:orbits of planets are elliptical;planets speed up as they get closer to the sun ;planets with larger orbits revolve slower than those with smaller orbits
  6. 11. Built a personal observatory and charted 20+ years worth of careful records on celestial motions
  7. 12. Discovered that there was no standard system for approaching experimentation
  8. 14. Argued that people are born as a "tabula rasa" and are basically reasonable and moral
  9. 15. Argued that people are naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish
Down
  1. 1. argued for separation of powers and to executive, judicial,and legislative branches and for a system of checks and balances
  2. 2. Father of modern rationalism (thought based, or deductive, research)
  3. 7. helped write the Declaration of Independence
  4. 8. Punishments should deter crime not horrify
  5. 10. argued that the earth revolved on an axis and took 365 days to orbit the sun
  6. 13. Catholic church condemned galileos work argued he should focus "not how the heavens go, but how to go to heaven"