Across
- 7. when an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.
- 8. Elegant drawing rooms of the wealthy upper class’s great urban houses.
- 9. States that the volume of a gas varies with the pressure exerted on it.
- 16. idea that the universe is sun-centered rather than Earth-centered, but the moon revolved around the Earth
- 18. English philosopher who created the scientific method that is still used today.
- 22. the executive legislative, and judicial powers of the government limit and control each other in a system of checks and balances
- 24. English writer, advanced the strongest statement for the rights of women
- 25. Truly a child prodigy. He gave his first harpsichord concert at age six
- 26. War in which Prussia and France waged war against Austria and Great Britain.
- 28. Places Earth at the center of the universe
- 29. A German mathematician, took the next step in destroying the Ptolemaic system
- 33. government system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their royal powers.
- 34. French noble who found natural laws that govern the social and political relationships of human beings. (Division of Powers)
- 37. a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence
Down
- 1. stated that all the orbits of the planets are because of the universal law of gravitation, which states that all objects are attracted to one another by a force called gravity
- 2. system of thought that is based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
- 3. The 1730s however, a new artistic style, known as ?
- 4. argued that every person was born with a tabula rasa, or blank mind.
- 5. idea that the orbits of the planets go in an elliptical, or egg shape.
- 6. Empress of Austria who inherited the throne in 1740.
- 10. War that took place in India and North America for….well….seven years
- 11. ruled Russia from 1762 to 1769
- 12. Most famous philosopher of the later Enlightenment
- 13. the planetary bodies continue their elliptical orbits about the sun
- 14. argued that punishments should not be brutal and the death penalty is wrong.
- 15. Supposedly had a mystical experience in which “the gift of God’s grace” assured him of salvation
- 17. This doctrine became known by its French name
- 19. first European to make regular observations of the heavens using a telescope
- 20. proceeding from the particular to the general
- 21. Intellectuals of the Enlightenment were known by the French
- 23. showed that the heart was the is the starting point for the blood circulation-not the liver.
- 27. Breakthroughs in medicine. The one who was able to describe the origins in the human body
- 30. one of the best educated and most cultured monarchs of the time
- 31. Created the Encyclopedia, or Classified Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades.
- 32. Native Poland mathematician who came up with the heliocentric, or sun-centered universe
- 35. Thinking and writing about the doubt and uncertainty that seemed to be everywhere in the confusion of the seventeenth century
- 36. the nest statement of laissez-faire was made in 1776