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- 2. English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and philosopher, noted particularly for his law of gravitation, his three laws of motion, his theory that light is composed of corpuscles, and his development of calculus independently of Leibnitz.
- 4. A systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence. Observe, hypothesis, experiment, analyze, revise or publish.
- 6. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars.
- 7. the name given to a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries.
- 10. a French writer and public activist who played a singular role in defining the eighteenth-century movement called the Enlightenment.
- 12. Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
- 13. the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe and other objects go around it.
- 14. a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
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- 1. an English writer and a passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She called for the betterment of women's status through such political change as the radical reform of national educational systems. Such change, she concluded, would benefit all society.
- 3. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
- 5. The intellectuals of the Enlightenment were known by the French name...meaning "philosopher."
- 8. a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
- 9. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.
- 11. the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.
