Scientific Rev & Enlightenment

France was the cultural and intellectual capital of Europe during the Enlightenment.

During the Enlightenment Salons were beauty gatherings that men organized for women.

The perfect government is the absolute monarchy.

The Neoclassical style in art was a more grand, ornate design.

People can learn from experience and improve themselves.

People are born good, but civilization corrupts them.

This scientist discovered that the planets revolve around the sun in an elliptical orbit.

This scientist developed the theory of gravitational force.

Logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.

Earth centered view of the universe.

Pamela, the novel of Richardson, is often considered the third true English novel.

Fought for women’s equality.

Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven created organ and choir music.

New way of thinking about the natural world.

Geoffrin helped finance Rousseau’s work.

Fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech.

The most influential of the salon hostesses in the Enlightenment was Marie-Therese Geoffrin.

This scientist built his own telescope and used it to study the heavens in 1609.

The idea that the sun was the center of the universe.

John Locke created the first encyclopedia. 

Proposed that separation of powers would keep any individual or group from gaining total control of the government.

Catherine the Great was an Enlightened Despot.

During the Enlightenment the new style in art was called Neoclassical.

Developed ideas on criminal justice.

Enlightenment ideas also spread through newspapers and pamphlets.

This scientist developed the heliocentric theory.

Monarchs who embraced the new ideas and made reforms that reflected the Enlightenment spirit.