Chapter 10

3. Belief that views reason as the chief source of knowledge
4. German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer; confirmed that the sun was at the center of the universe
5. French philosopher; began by thinking and writing about the doubt; wrote "Discourse on Method"
7. Systematic procedure to collect and analyze evidence
9. Earth at the center of universe
11. Mathematician, astronomer; formulated the sun-centered conception of the universe
13. Sun at the center of universe
14. English philosopher; one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinker; argued that every person was born with a tabula rasa or blank mind, through his work "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

1. English philosopher; believed that scientists should learn about nature by using inductive reasoning instead of rely on the ideas of ancient authorities
2. Composer; owner of three of the world's greatest operas: "The Marriage of Figaro", "The Magic Flute", and "Don Giovanni"
4. Most famous philosophe of the later Enlightenment; through his "Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind", argued that people had adopted laws and government in order to preserve their private property
6. Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician; first European to make regular observations of the heavens using a telescope
8. English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist; influenced eighteenth-century intellectual through ideas; discovered several laws and theories of physics and motion
10. A period when philosophers used reason and the scientific method to discover more about human nature
12. Someone who studies wisdom, love to study