Across
- 3. Because of this "revolution" in Europe, people began to question traditional authority.
- 4. What movement most inspired the ideas included in our country's Declaration of Independence and Constitution?
- 6. What was a belief shared by many Enlightenment philosophers on who was responsible for protecting the rights of the people?
- 7. The anecdote or story about what piece of fruit falling from a tree inspired the theory of gravity?
- 9. What church in Italy sentenced Galileo to prison for saying the Earth traveled around the sun?
- 10. Author of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which explained universal gravitation and inspired the Industrial Revolution.
- 11. This enlightenment thinker believed that the natural rights of women were limited to the areas of the home and family life.
- 12. Which scientist challenged older views of astronomy by proving the planets were not round and uniformly smooth orbs of light?
Down
- 1. Isaac Newton and other scientists invented a standard scale for this devise that measures temperature.
- 2. This enlightenment thinker believed in "natural rights", which is the belief that certain rights are universal to all humans.
- 5. Which scientist made important discoveries in calculus, optics, and mechanics but not chemistry?
- 8. Which scientist proved that Nicolaus Copernicus's theory about the relationship between the position of the sun and planets was correct?