Chapter 10

4. emphasized the importance of his own mind. he asserted that he would accept only those things that his reason said were true
7. a mathematician that made the heliocentric experiment
8. used a telescope to make observations. His observations seemed to ruin another theory of the Ptolemaic system
9. showed that the planets that orbited the sun were not round
10. one of the intellectuals of the enlightenment were influenced by the ideas from him and Isaac Newton
13. A child prodigy, and a famous composer, he composed over 600 works
14. a system of planetary motion that put earth at the center of the universe
15. a system that placed the sun at the center of the universe

1. believed that the physical world and everything in it was like a giant machine, one of the enlightenment influences
2. presented his concept of the social contract
3. a procedure used for collecting and analyzing evidence
5. Someone who studies wisdom, love to study
6. a system of thought based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
11. A period when philosophers used reason and the scientific method to discover more about human nature
12. the person who developed the scientific method, English philosopher