Into to Humanities: Test 2 Study Guide

who publication set forth the laws of planetary motion & substantiated the heliocentric theory?

who was leading advocate of a process known as inductive reasoning?

Name the formation of social sciences.

Name the 2 events that proved most damaging to the prestige of the catholic church?

what are some of the "natural rights" that humans have?

who published the landmark treatise "on the revolution of the heavenly spheres"?

who is known as the "father of modern economics"?

What is the name of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting?

what is the name of the most influential of the 19th century German intellectuals?

Name Bacon's publication?

what is the name of the group of french thinkers who advocated reason & clear thinking?

what city was the birthplace of the renaissance?

what mark the lifestyle of merchants and artisans who live in the city-states of Italy?

what does the word "renaissance" mean?

what was Leonardo most dependable instrument for obtaining true knowledge of nature?

Michelangelo was a talented architect, poet, painter, & engineer, but do he considered himself?

name the artwork with which Michelangelo established his reputation in Florence?

where did the above-referenced natural disaster hit the hardest, and why? 

who perfected the telescope & helped turn the heliocentric theory in fact?

Describe the romantic movement?

what is the name of the wealthy banking family the dominated political life in Florence?

who was the most scintillating of french philosophies & leading intellectual of french society?

name Machiavelli's political study; the unity of Italy under a powerful and courageous leader?

the modern view of the world as governed by what?

explain the doctrine known as deism.

what did descartes advocate as the best procedure fro scientific investigation?

what is the name of the most famous female image in the history of western art? 

who was the foremost musical genius of the 18th century and possibly of all time?

how did Hobbes & john locke disagree in their interpretations of the idea of a social contract?

what did renaissance Italy have in common with ancient Greece?

what is the name of the English astronomer who wrote the "Principia".

Define "Classical humanism"?

what became the dominant feature of the renaissance in Italy?

how did Darwin's law of evolution challenge traditional ideas about nature & the world order?

according to John Locke, what condition is the mind in at birth?

how did Darwin's theory view humans from their place in the hierarchy of living creatures?

define geocentric theory and heliocentric theory?

when did the scientific revolution take place?

what did renaissance humanists advocate? 

what was the most devastating natural disaster of the fourteenth century?

name the artist who created the 1st free-standing, life-sized nude statue since antiquity?

where is leonardo's "last supper" found?italy

what is the name of Pico della Mirandola's "manifesto of humanism"? 

the scientific revolution culminated in the union of 3 movement? what were they?