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- 4. Wollstonecraft A passionate women rights activist
- 7. The revolution in scientific thinking that Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo began eventually developed into a new approach to science
- 10. As a young man, Galileo learned that a Dutch lens maker had built an instrument that could enlarge far-off objects. Galileo built his own telescope and used it to study the heavens in 1609.
- 11. At these events, philosophers, writers, art- ists, scientists, and other great intellects met to discuss ideas.
- 13. Newton Brought together breakthroughs with one single theory of motion
- 15. She ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796. The well- educated empress read the works of philosophes, and she exchanged many letters with Voltaire. She ruled with absolute authority but also sought to reform Russia.
- 17. The artistic style of the late 1700s is therefore called
- 18. believed that Britain was the best-governed and most politically balanced country of his own day.
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- 1. Hobbes theory of government that the ruler needed complete power
- 2. despots The philosophes tried to convince monarchs to rule justly. Some monarchs embraced the new ideas and made reforms that reflected the Enlightenment
- 3. He made frequent targets of the clergy, the aristocracy, and the govern- ment. His sharp tongue made him enemies at the French court, and twice he was sent to prison.
- 5. was passionately committed to individual freedom
- 6. Locke He believed that people could learn from experi- ence and improve themselves
- 7. new way of thinking about the natural world
- 8. European art of the 1600s and early 1700s had been dominated by this style
- 9. This earth-centered view of the universe
- 12. new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems.
- 14. The social critics of this period in France
- 16. Sun was the center of the universe