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- 4. an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
- 6. a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
- 7. an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book.
- 9. provided a place for women and men to congregate for intellectual discourse.
- 10. the intellectuals of the 18th century Enlightenment.
- 11. Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
- 12. the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67.
- 15. a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era, born in Salzburg.
- 16. an Anglican minister and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement known as Methodism.
- 17. a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie
- 19. an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".
- 21. Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician
- 24. a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.
- 25. Any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
- 26. an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy
- 29. a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century.
- 30. was fought between 1755 and 1764
- 33. a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
- 34. The eccentricity of the ellipse is greatly exaggerated here.
- 37. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
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- 1. an ongoing process, which usually begins with observations about the natural world
- 2. a theory or model, originating during the Age of Enlightenment, that typically addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.
- 3. a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.
- 5. was King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.
- 8. logical process in which multiple premises, all believed true or found true most of the time, are combined to obtain a specific conclusion.
- 13. astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
- 14. an astronomical theory which describes the universe
- 18. English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
- 20. involved most of the powers of Europe
- 22. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
- 23. a form of absolute monarchy or despotism inspired by the Enlightenment.
- 27. For a fixed amount of an ideal gas kept at a fixed temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional.
- 28. an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.
- 31. an English physician who made seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology.
- 32. an 18th-century artistic movement and style, affecting many aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music, and theatre.
- 35. the only female ruler of the the Austrian Empire.
- 36. German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.