Science & Enlightenment - Ch. 16

Montesquieu's contribution to American government, found in The Spirit of the Laws was

Galileo was reluctant to join forces with Kepler because he feared

Gottfried Willhelm von Liebnitz was lampooned in Voltaire's Candide for his belief that

The stated goal of Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopedia was to

Descartes' view of the universe was 

Francis Bacon was a proponent of deductive reasoning, which was based on 

Baron de Montesquieu used satire and the vantage point of outsiders in The Persian Letters to

Galileo was tried for heresy in 1632 because he

The appearance of a new star in 1572 and a comet in 1577 appeared to contradict

For Voltaire, the equality that was realizable was 

Science and empire found their interests merging in

Enlightenment writers took intellectual focus away from antiquity and set an agenda to

Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government insisted on the sovereignty of

Natural philosophers often included which ancient fields in their practices and studies?

Cartesian dualism is based on the existence of 

Some women, such as Maria Sibylla Merian combined art & science with careers as

In his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" John Locke explains the human mind as a

Empiricism is based on 

Universities and academies did offer science posts to women in

Aristotle and his followers believed that objects are naturally in motion

The experimental method called for

Kepler's contributions to science include his pioneering the field of

True of false: Galileo's law of inertia proves that objects are naturally at rest

Galileo's Sidereal Messenger "exploded" traditional beliefs about the universe by describing

Johannes Kepler's contribution to astronomy was his proclamation

Many Greek texts made their way into western Europe after 1453 because of the

Madame du Chatelet believed that women's limited role in science was due to

The main feature of the "Newtonian Synthesis" is his

Copernicus' ideas about the earth's movement were rejected by some Protestants because they

Tycho Brahe's contribution to astronomy lay in his

Copernicus did not publish On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres until 1543 because he

Andreas Vesalius was noted for his studies of

The Copernican hypothesis did NOT call into question

Which STEM field was used by Renaissance painters in their turn toward realism?

Voltaire and the philosophes believed that religious intoleration led to

Kepler's observations proved that planetary motion is

Blood circulation through veins and arteries was discovered by

Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary proclaimed the idea that