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- 3. a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
- 4. form of government in the 18th century in which absolute monarchs pursued legal, social, and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment.
- 6. french political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
- 7. English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and philosopher, noted particularly for his law of gravitation
- 8. the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe and other objects go around it.
- 10. An empress of Russia in the late eighteenth century
- 11. a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries
- 12. a gathering of people held by an inspiring host.
- 17. a passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women.
- 18. the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism.
- 19. movements in the arts that draw inspiration from the classical art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome
- 20. were the intellectuals of the 18th-century Enlightenment
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- 1. a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated
- 2. A systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence
- 5. a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point
- 9. belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe.
- 12. an unofficial agreement shared by everyone in a society in which they give up some freedom for security
- 13. French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society
- 14. known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity
- 15. something that is elaborate and highly detailed
- 16. a belief that we come to knowledge through the use of logic, and thus independently of sensory experience
