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world history
world historyChapter 17 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| geocentric | a model of the universe that places earth at the center |
| Ptolemaic System | model of the universe constructed by the philosophers of the middle ages |
| Heliocentric | sun-centered, conception of the universe, offered a more accurate explanation |
| Universal Law of Gravitation | explains why the planetary bodies do not go off in straight lines |
| Rationalism | based on belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge |
| scientific method | a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence |
| Inductive reasoning | scientists should proceed from the particular to the general |
| Ptolemy | studied Greek and Latin works |
| Nicholas Copernicus | published "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" |
| Galileo Galilei | taught mathematics |
| Issac Newton | wrote "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" |
| Margret Cavendish | came from an aristocratic family |
| Robert Boyle | one of the first scientists to conduct controlled experiments |
| Maria Winklemann | most famous female astronomer in Germany |
| Rene Descartes | french philosopher |
| Francis Bacon | an English philosopher with a few scientific credentials |
| Philosophe | philosopher |
| Separation of Powers | separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branch |
| Lassiez-Faire | to let the government do what they want |
| Social Contract | an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will |
| Salon | elegant drawing rooms of wealthy upper class people |
| Deism | religious philosophy based on reason and natural law |
| John Locke | theory of knowledge also greatly affected |
| Montesquieu | came from French nobility |
| Volitaire | greatest figure of the Enlightenment |
| Denis Diderot | fulfill his father's hopes that he would be a lawyer |
| Adam Smith | "The Wealth of Nations" |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | introduced to the circle of philosophers |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | the founder of the African American movement for women rights |
| John Wesley | an Anglican minister |
| Rococo | new artistic style |
| Enlightened Absolutism | rulers tried to govern with enlightenment principles |
| Bach | a renowned organist |
| Handel | German who spent much of his career in England |
| Haydn | a musical director for wealthy Hungarian Princess |
| Mozart | truly a child prodigy |
| Fredrick the Great | one of the best educated and most cultured monarchs |
| Maria Theresa | inherited the throne in 1740 |
| Catherine the Great | ruled Russia from 1762-1796 |
| Mestizo | European and Native American offspring |
| Mulatto | the offspring of Africans and Europeans |
| Federal System | which power would be shared between the national government |
| Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz | urged that women be educated |
| Hanoverians | was established when the last Stuart ruler died. (new dynasty) |
| Robert Walpole | served as head of cabinet |
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