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- 4. The most famous new religious and evangelical movement-Methodism- was the work of this Anglican minister.
- 8. A more accurate explanation than the Ptolemaic System, the sun is at the center of the universe.
- 9. Published his famous book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
- 13. His famous work is The Spirit of the Laws
- 15. Planets moved around the sun in a egg-shaped path.
- 17. The intellectuals of the Enlightenment were especially influenced by the ideas of two seventeenth-century Englishmen, Newton and __________.
- 18. Three branches: the executive (the monarch), the legislative (Parliament) and the judicial (the courts of law).
- 20. Through this, an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.
- 22. Used detailed astronomical data to arrive at his laws of planetary motion.
- 23. Showed that the heart-not the liver, as Galen had thought-was the beginning point for the circulation of blood.
- 24. The result of people being concerned about how they best understand the physical world.
- 26. A type of monarchy that rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their royal powers.
- 29. The War of the Austrian Succession led to this ________ and was fought in three areas of the world in Europe, Asia, and North America.
- 30. She ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796, she was an intelligent woman who was familiar with the works of the philosophes and seemed to favor enlightened reforms.
- 32. Began by thinking and writing about what seemed to be everywhere in the confusion of the seventeenth century.
- 33. An elegant drawing room of the wealthy upper class’s great urban houses.
- 34. English philosopher with few scientific credentials.
- 35. An english writer, advanced the strongest statement for the rights of women.
- 36. She inherited the throne in 1740, she worked to centralize and strengthen the state.
- 37. Descartes has rightly been called the father of modern ___________.
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- 1. The volume of a gas varies with the pressure exerted on it.
- 2. The Physiocrats and Scottish philosopher _____________ have been viewed as the founders of the modern social science of economics.
- 3. The intellectuals of the Enlightenment were known by the French word, meaning philosopher.
- 5. Unlike the baroque style, which stressed grandeur and power, this style emphasized grace, charm, and gentle action.
- 6. Explains why the planetary bodies continue their elliptical orbits about the sun.
- 7. Scientist should not rely on the ideas of ancient authorities, they should learn about nature by using _____________.
- 10. First European to make regular observation of the heavens using a telescope.
- 11. The state should not interrupt the free play of natural economic forces by imposing regulations on the economy.
- 12. Places Earth at the center of the universe
- 14. His father wanted him to pursue a career in law or in the Church, instead he became a writer.
- 16. He argued that people had adopted laws and government in order to preserve their private property.
- 19. One of the best educated and most cultured monarchs of the time, he was well versed in Enlightenment ideas.
- 21. Prussia took advantage of the confusion surrounding the succession of a woman to the throne by invading Austrian Silesia.
- 25. Accurately described the individual organs and general structure of the human body.
- 27. A professor of mathematics at Cambridge University.
- 28. Wrote an essay called On Crimes and Punishments (1764).
- 31. A child prodigy, he had his first harpsichord concert at age six, and wrote his first opera at twelve.