Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution Vocabulary

4. believed humans had certain natural rights (Life, Liberty, and Property)
9. society agrees to be governed by its general will
10. system of right common to all humans
13. female philosophe that wanted to improve the condition of women/women's rights
15. sun is the center of the universe
16. believed human life was "brutish and poor"
17. written in 1690 that argued against the absolute rule of one person
20. used soft colors to bring together the spiritual feelings of the religious revival with the ideas of Renaissance art
22. used elongated figures to show suffering, heightened emotions, and religious ecstasy
23. published in 1651 to deal with England's problem of disorder
24. wrote the "Classified Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades"(Encyclopedia)
25. written to remind governments that "all men are brothers under god"
26. strongly believed in religious toleration and fought for it in France
29. believed scientists should use inductive reasoning to learn about nature
30. found that the orbits of planets are not circular, but egg-shaped
31. enlightenment intellectual
32. reason is the source of knowledge

1. opposed capital punishment and the use of punishment in brutality
2. essay that proposes a new approach to justice and punishment
3. believed the sun was the center of the universe and Earth revolved around the sun
5. argued that people had become enslaved by the government when they adopted laws
6. believed the government shouldn't interfere in economic matters
7. document that pointed out that the power of men over women was equally wrong
8. six steps to gather and analyze data
11. orbits of planets are elliptical
12. three branches of government- executive, judicial, and legislative
14. means "to let (people) do (what they want)"
18. movement of intellectuals based on reason, natural law, hope, and progress
19. Spanish writer that wrote "Don Quixote"
21. Father of modern rationalism
27. 28 volume book of knowledge
28. wrote the "Spirit of Laws"