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Gregory Ch 20 Scientific Revolution

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A period of new technology and new approaches to seeking knowledgeScientific Revolution
The earth is the center of the universeGeocentric Theory
The sun is the center of the universeHeliocentric Theory
He developed the Scientific MethodFrancis Bacon
Using observation, logic and reason to develop theories or find answers to questionsScientific Method
This is provable using mathematics or sciencePhysical Law
He developed the laws of Planetary MotionJohann Kepler
He improved the telescopeGalileo
He developed the Theory of GravityIssac Newton
He wrote "Truth Through Reason"Rene Descartes
He developed the barometerTorricelli
The chemistry of the Middles Ages (based on superstitution & magicAlchemy
the 4 Medieval Elementsearth-water-air-fire
He was the first to define "elements"Robert Boyle
He discovered the existence of oxygen and invented carbonated drinksJason Priestly
He is known as "The Father of Modern Chemistry"Antoine Lavoisier
He experimented with lightningBen Franklin
He depicted the human body accuratelyVesalius
He discovered the heart was a pump and how the circulatory system workedHarvey
He discovered the "cell"Robert Hooke
he improved the microscopevan Leeuwenhoek
The period of scientific, social and political thought based on logic and reasoningAge of Reason
universal moral law that could be understood by applying reasonNatural Law
He believed in an absolute monarchy. He wrote "Leviathan"Thomas Hobbes
He wrote "Treatises of Government" and believed that government is created by the peopleJohn Locke
These were created and existed before man created governmentNatural Rights
The three Natural Rights areLife - Liberty - Property
When the people make an agreement with the governmentSocial Contract
He wrote the Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson
The opposition to violence or war as a method of satisfying disputesPacifism
Denouncing organized religionDeism
The effort to use Natural Law and Reason in an effort to understand and improve societyEnlightenment
Great thinkersPhilosophes
He compiled the first encyclopediaDenis Diderot
He wrote the "Spirit of Laws" - He studied existing governmentsMontesquieu
The three branches of government arelegislative - judicial - executive
legislative branchmakes the laws
executive branchenforces the laws
judicial branchinterprets the laws
He challenged the idea that everything happens for the bestVoltaire
He wrote the "Social Contract"Rousseau
the economic system of free enterprise, private ownership of property and individual profitcapitalism
He founded capitalism and wrote "The Wealth of Nations"Adam Smith
The philosophy that deals with univesal spiritual and ethical questionsMetaphysics
He began the movement of MethodismJohn Wesley
Related to the ancient cultures of Greece and RomeClassicism
Writing that uses irony and sarcasmsatire
He wrote "Guliver's Travels"Jonathan Swift
He wrote "Robinson Crusoe"Daniel Defoe
He wrote organ music and religious compositionsBach
He wrote the "Messiah"Handel
He wrote symphony musicHaydn
He wrote 600 compositions and operasMozart
The artistic movement celebrating human emotions that had always been ignoredRomanticism


sehamilt@henrico.k12.va.us
Mills E. Godwin High School
richmond, VA

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