Age of Reason Flash Cards
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| Boyle's Law says | increasing pressure on a gas reduces its volume
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| Who discovered the chemical substances of ammonia, oxygen, and carbon dioxide? | Priestly
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| The eighteenth-century intellectual movement is known as the | Enlightenment
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| The belief which sees reason as the only sure source of knowledge and truth is | rationalism
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| The framers of the United States' Constitution borrowed which idea from Montesquieu? | separation of powers
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| Which was the chief means for spreading the ideas of the philosophes? | the Encyclopedie
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| The Social Contract maintained that the "general will" meant | majority rule
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| Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley were | hymn writers
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| El Greco is known for figures that are | elongated
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| What Dutch painter was known for his chiaroscuro effect? | Rembrandt
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| Which pair of words best describes the rococo style? | delicate, feminine
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| Which art style expressed the orderly, formal, and balanced approach of the Enlightenment? | neoclassical
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| Which of the following composers is associated with opera? Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi | Monteverdi
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| An oratorio is best described as | a combination of vocal and instrumental music telling a sacred story
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| What theory says that the sun is the center of the universe? | heliocentric
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| What is reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion called? | inductive reasoning
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| What philosophy says that everything is part of one great substance called "God"? | pantheism
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| "All knowledge comes through experience" expresses which philosophy? | Empiricism
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| What were the eighteenth-century American revivals called? | The Great Awakening
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| What term is applied to music with several intertwined melody lines? | polyphony
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| Who wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? | Gibbon
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| French comedies | Moliere
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| To err is human, to forgive divine | Pope
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| Gulliver's Travels | Swift
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| Robinson Crusoe | Defoe
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| Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Gibbon
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| heliocentric theory | Copernicus
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| improved telescope | Galileo
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| chemicals used to treat disease | Paracelsus
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| heart pumps blood | Harvey
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| vaccination | Jenner
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| Father of Modern Chemistry | Lavoisier
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| mapmaker | Mercator
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| microscope | Leeunwenhoek
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| deductive reasoning | Descartes
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| inductive reasoning | Bacon
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| The Roman Catholic Church supported the geocentric theory and branded those who accepted the heliocentric theory as heretics | True
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| The modern concepts of chemistry developed from the medieval practices of mixing elixirs and potions | True
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| Anton van Leeuwenhoek's improved telescope aided in his discovery of bacteria | False
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| Deists saw God as the Creator who no longer intervened in human affairs | True
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| The literature of the Age of Reason developed its own rules, not using models from earlier times | False
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