The Scientific Revolution and its Enlightened Aftermath

Heliocentricism means that the earth and other planets orbited around a fixed sun. 

___ Spirit of the Laws (1748) was the most influential book on government of the century. 

In Smith's novel ___ (1776), he preached the gospel of free trade and free markets.

What method did Bacon's writing/research encourage others to use?

Only the educated upper class and clergy were the audience of the philosophers and scientists. 

___ formulated the three laws of celestial mechanics.

Smith was also a proponent of ___ capitalism.

The French ___ was an attempt to make science comprehensible and accessible to the masses.

Who popularized deductive reasoning?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was extremely important in the field of ___ philosophy.

___ was a reform movement in 18th-century Europe that challenged traditional ideas. 

What two elements compose the scientific method?

Which of the following was an ideal of the Enlightenment?

In __ someone goes from a generalization to a particular example of that law observed byhumans.

The Enlightenment was a view of life and was promoted by philosophers.

___ advocated limiting the power of the monarch. 

___ spent his entire life measuring the cosmic rotation of the visible planets.

Which of the following was an Enlightenment philosopher?

___ mapped the political path England was taking in the 1600s.

Both Catholic and Protestant churches saw the work of scientists of the time to be ___.

___ published the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies. 

___ studied physics and discovered the laws of gravity.

Most scientists considered themselves good Christians.

Montesquieu argued for equal powers in all branches of government. 

Copernicus affirmed the geocentric theory as being wholly true.

Bacon lookedto find knowledge through careful observation without anypreconceived laws .

Who was inductive reasoning popularized by?

Empirical means theevidence is obtained by observation through the five senses.

Adam Smith was the most outstanding economic mind of the Enlightenment.