Across
- 1. believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society
- 5. a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment
- 6. belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation
- 7. a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries
- 9. revival or adaptation of the classical especially in literature, music, art, or architecture
- 10. theory that the Earth goes around the sun
- 13. led her country into full participation in the political and cultural life of Europe
- 16. the pen name under which French author-philosopher François-Marie Arouet published a number of books and pamphlets in the 18th century
- 19. an informal education for women
- 20. the state of having knowledge or understanding
- 21. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation
Down
- 2. when a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights
- 3. English philosopher and political theorist
- 4. the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe and other objects go around it
- 8. irregularly shaped
- 11. a monarch who respects the people's rights and rule fairly
- 12. the philosophical view or belief that reason is the best test of knowledge
- 14. used her own accomplishments to demonstrate a woman's aptitude for independent thought and academic excellence
- 15. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers
- 17. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- 18. remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation