AP European History Chapters 16 and 17 Review

_______ new foundation- a correct scientific method- was to be built on inductive principles.

The English and the French societies made useful contributions to scientific knowledge, what was truly important?

Pierre Bayle argued that_____ was wrong in French society.

“Natural Philosophers" were also known as...

An important revival of Christianity and proved that the need for spiritual experience had not been expunged.

Strict theological framework and reliance on a few ancient authorities, especially Aristotle and ____ limited thought.

How did political interests use the new scientific conception of the natural world?

Wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body, deviated from traditional practice dissected a body to show organs.

The first scientific societies appeared in __, but those of England and France were ultimately of more significance.

Mathematics was promoted by the rediscovery of the works of ancient mathematicians and the influence of...

In the first book of _____, Newton defined the basic concepts of mechanics by elaborating the three laws of motion:

Galileo’s revelations, published in _______ stunned his contemporaries

Able to communicate a body of scientific knowledge in a clear and even witty fashion.

Considered the greatest astronomer of antiquity, who lived in the second century A.D.

How did Immanuel Kant define the Enlightenment?

Began reflecting about doubt and uncertainty. Philosophy dominated Western thought until the twentieth century.

Which choice below best defines a physiocrat?

_________ had become fused with alchemical thought into a single intellectual framework.

Descartes had rightly been called the father of modern...

Which historical figure below believed that the secrets of nature were written in the language of mathematics?

Voltaire, considered the greatest figure of the Enlightement was known as a polemicist, which means...

Wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres but did not publish until shortly before his death.

The dissolution of the___was yet another victory for Catholic governments determined to win control over their churches.

The 18th century Enlightenment was a movement of intellectuals who...

Had an indirect but crucial role in spreading innovative ideas quickly and easily.

Attacked what she thought were defects of the rationalist and empiricist approaches to scientific knowledge.

Wealthy bourgeois widow; attracted many of the Enlightenment’s great figures to salons.

Rejected strict geometrical patterns, had a fondness for curves (follow the wandering lines of natural objects)

Denied Descartes’ belief in innate ideas. Argued every person was born with a tabula rasa, a blank mind.

Why were literate mercantile and propertied elites of Europe attracted to the new science?

Recognized as the capital of the Enlightenment

Belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe.