| A | B |
|---|
| Enlightenment | belief that logical can lead to truth in viewing power, government, and law |
| natural rights | life, liberty, property |
| geocentric theorgy | earth is the center of universe |
| heliocentric theory | sun is the center of universe |
| Copernicus | realized sun stood still |
| Galileo | Starry Messenger: heleocentric theory |
| recant | to admit ideas were wrong |
| Montesquieu | three branches of government: legislative, judicial, executive |
| Locke | believer in natural rights for humans |
| Voltaire | freedom of speech |
| Hobbes | "Leviathan" |
| Rousseau | "Social Contract" between government and the people |
| Scientific Revolution | careful observation and a willingness to question beliefs applied to the natural world |
| Isaac Newton | law of gravity |
| Descartes | developed analytical geometry |
| Francis Bacon | urged scientists to use experimentation |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | believed in women's equality |
| salon | social gatherings to discuss enlightenment ideas |
| enlightened despots | monarchs ruling justly |
