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| Scientific Revolution | was a new way of thinking about the natural world. |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Polish cleric and astronomer. |
| heliocentric theory | sun-centered |
| Johannes Kepler | concluded that certain mathematical laws govern planetery motion |
| Galileo Galilei | cathedral closely watching a chandelier swing on its chain |
| scientific method | logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas. |
| Francis Bacon | english politician & writer |
| Rene Descartes | he developed analystical geometry |
| Isaac Newton | help to bring together their break through under a single theory of motion |
| Enlightenment | Scientific Revolution paved the way for a new movement |
| social contract | the agreement by which people define & limit their individual rights |
| John Locke | held a different more positive view of human nature |
| natural rights | the rights all people are born equally |
| philosophe | one of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment |
| Voltaire | published more than 70 books of political essays, philosophy, history, fiction & drama |
| Montesquieu | devoted himself to the study of political liberty |
| separation of powers | called this division of power among different branches |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | was passionately committed to individual freedom |
| mary Wollstonecraft | who published an essay called, Vindication of Rights of Women |
| salon | a social gathering of intellectuals and artists |
| baroque | relating to a grand, ornate style that characteristic European painting music |
| neoclassical | relating to a simple, elegant style on ideas & themes |
| enlightened despot | one of the 18th century European Monarchs |
| Catherine the Great | well-educated empress read the books of the philosophes |
| Declaration of Independence | a statement of the reasons of the invasion of the European mainland |
| Thomas Jefferson | was firmly based no the ideas of John Locke & the enlightenment |
| checks & balances | measures designed to prevent any branch of government from dominating |
| federal system | a system of government in which power was divided between national & state government |
| Bill of Rights | the first ten comandments to the U.S. constitution, which protect citizens basic rights & freedoms |
