Across
- 9. a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity
- 10. an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits
- 11. a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer
- 12. an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science
- 13. a French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher
- 14. an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer from Pisa
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- 1. astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Universe
- 2. an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"
- 3. theory of the structure of the solar system in which Earth is assumed to be at the center of it all
- 4. a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries
- 5. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries
- 6. French word for "philosopher," and was a word that the French Enlightenment thinkers usually applied to themselves
- 7. an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author
- 8. an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights
