Module 12 Vocabulary

2. They helped to bring together their breakthroughs under a single theory of motion.
5. Enlightenment thinkers, building on ideas set forth earlier by Descartes.
7. A change in European thought because scholars replaced old assumptions with new theories.
10. The belief that God was the creator of this orderly universe, the clockmaker who had set everything in motion.
11. An influential French writer who devoted himself to the study of political liberty.
14. The earth-centered view of the universe.
15. Italian scientist who built on the new theories about astronomy.
17. Some monarchs embraced the new ideas and made reforms that reflected the Enlightenment spirit.
20. To escape such a bleak life, people had to hand over their rights to a strong ruler. In exchange, they gained law and order.
21. They published an essay called A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792.

1. The philosopher who held a different, more positive view of human nature.
3. A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
4. Sun-centered.
6. Large drawing rooms that held regular social-gatherings.
8. The ruler that was most admired by the philosophes who ruled from 1762 to 1796.
9. A third great philosophe who was passionately committed to individual freedom.
12. A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems.
13. The main artistic style of the late 1700s.
16. The pen name for probably the most brilliant and influential of the philosophes
18. Style which dominated European art of the 1600s and early 1700s.
19. The social critics in France in the mid-1700’s.