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- 5. a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
- 7. a highly ornate and elaborate style of architecture, art and design that flourished in Europe in the 17th and first half of the 18th century
- 13. a significant period between Copernicus and Newton, from 1500 to 1700, marked by the emergence of engineer-scientists and the establishment of classical sciences,
- 14. a ruler with absolute power who embraces Enlightenment ideals
- 15. French word for "philosopher," and was a word that the French Enlightenment thinkers usually applied to themselves.
- 16. He formulated laws of motion and gravitation. These laws are math formulas that explain how objects move when a force acts on them
- 18. a renowned women's rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
- 19. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
- 20. an informal education for women, where they were able to exchange ideas, receive and give criticism, read their own works and hear the works and ideas of other intellectuals.
- 21. the founder of British empiricism and the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism
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- 1. his work On the Social Contract, which questioned the purpose and place of government and its responsibility for its citizens.
- 2. first to report telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn
- 3. The theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun
- 4. establishing educational reform, championing the arts, and extending Russia's borders in the largest territorial gain since Ivan the Terrible.
- 6. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
- 8. 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
- 9. Belief in God based on reason rather than revelation or the teaching of any specific religion is known as
- 10. theory of the structure of the solar system (or the universe) in which Earth is assumed to be at the center of it all.
- 11. an idea, theory or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.
- 12. a versatile and prolific writer. In his lifetime he published numerous works, including books, plays, poems, and polemics. His most famous works included the fictitious Lettres philosophiques (1734) and the satirical novel Candide (1759)
- 17. an aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity