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Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
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Who wrote
Principia Mathematica
and argued for a universal law of gravitation?
Ptolemy
Kepler
Galileo
Newton
2
Rousseau had a major influence on which revolution?
The French Revolution of 1789
The American Revolution, 1775
The French Revolution of 1848
The English Glorious Revolution, 1689
3
Each of the following are duties of government outlined in Smith's
The Wealth of Nations
EXCEPT...
To provide health care and social security
To provide a justice system
To build public works and infrastructure
To provide a military
4
Who believed in
laissez-faire
economics and wrote
The Wealth of Nations
?
Rousseau
Voltaire
Locke
Smith
5
Whose ideas helped Medieval philosophers construct a geocentric concept of the universe?
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Kepler
Galileo
6
Who emphasized separation of powers and checks and balances in his book
The Spirit of Laws
?
Voltaire
Diderot
Smith
Montesquieu
7
Each of the following directly contributed to the Scientific Revolution EXCEPT
Bacon
Copernicus
Galileo
Galen
8
Who was the philosopher who focused on systematic doubt and promoted deductive reasoning?
Newton
Bacon
Descartes
Kirch
9
Who edited the
Encyclopedia
which helped spread Enlightenment ideas?
Voltaire
Rousseau
Diderot
Smith
10
Who was the deist emphasized religious toleration and freedom of speech?
Diderot
Voltaire
Smith
Montesquieu
11
Who accurately described the individual organs and general structure of the human body?
Galen
Newton
Vesalius
Harvey
12
Who believed in a
tabula rasa
and that all men were entitled to life, liberty, and property?
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Locke
13
Who wrote the
Starry Messenger
and said that heavenly bodies were made of material substance?
Galileo
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Kepler
14
Who believed in the general will and popular sovereignty?
Smith
Montesquieu
Wollstonecraft
Rousseau
15
Which of the following venues were the most important to the Enlightenment?
Coffeehouses
Salons
Universities
Courthouses
16
Who confirmed the Copernican heliocentric model and published laws of planetary motion?
Galileo
Ptolemy
Kepler
Newton
17
Who is considered the founder of modern feminism and argued for women's education?
Wesley
Wollstonecraft
Montesquieu
Voltaire
18
Who proved that blood continuously flows through the veins and arteries?
Newton
Vesalius
Boyle
Harvey
19
Who wrote
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
and constructed a heliocentric model?
Kepler
Galileo
Ptolemy
Copernicus
20
Who emphasized inductive reasoning and stressed the importance of the scientific method?
Descartes
Galileo
Bacon
Newton
21
The Enlightenment occurred predominantly in which century?
19th
18th
17th
16th