Stufflet Euro U4P1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
heliocentric | astronomical theory that says the sun is the center of the solar system |
geocentric | astronomical theory that says the Earth is the center of the universe |
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543) | book that outlined the Copernican hypothesis |
Galileo Galilei | perfected the experimental method; suggested the law of inertia; used the telescope to further prove the Copernican hypothesis |
Isaac Newton | explained the law of universal gravitation; synthesized ideas of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo; explained WHY bodies did as they did |
Principia | Issac Newton's masterpiece |
Enlightenment | philosophical movement that sought to use the methods of the Scientific Revolution to explain the social world |
John Locke | Enlightened political theorist; promoted natural rights of life, liberty, and property; also promoted social contract theory |
philosophes | French intellectuals that spread enlightened ideas |
Baron de Montesquieu | Frenchman who wrote The Spirit of the Laws in which he argued for separation of powers in government |
Voltaire | most famous philosophe of the Enlightenment; called for religious toleration |
Encyclopedia | edited work that sought to outline all known human knowledge through rational, scientifically researched articles |
Rousseau | claimed women should still be excluded from gov't; also argued that the general will and popular sovereignty were important concepts in government |
popular sovereignty | Locke's idea that political power is derived from the people and the people give power to their rulers |
social contract theory | theory that said people consented to give up some freedom in return for protection of life, liberty, and property by the state |
Frederick the Great | enlightened Prussian monarch |
Maria Theresa | Austrian monarch who gained throne through Pragmatic Sanction |
Joseph II | most enlightened Austrian monarch; freed serfs |
Copernican hypothesis | proposed a HELIOCENTRIC (sun centered) model as opposed to GEOCENTRIC (Earth centered) model of solar system |
Galen's humoral theory | proposed the body possessed four "liquids", and their imbalance caused sickness |
barber surgeon | early "doctor" that treated sickness through strategic bleeding |
William Harvey | claimed the body was comprised of systems that were interconnected; studied circulatory system |
Mary Wollstonecraft | claimed women were not naturally inferior; they simply lacked the education men received |
deism | belief that reason, science, observation of nature will prove God exists, not revelation or prophets |
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