Into to Humanities: Test 2 Study Guide

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

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

Name the formation of social sciences.

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

what did renaissance humanists advocate? 

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

the modern view of the world as governed by what?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

define geocentric theory and heliocentric theory?

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

what became the dominant feature of the renaissance in Italy?

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

what did renaissance Italy have in common with ancient Greece?

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

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

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

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

what does the word "renaissance" mean?

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

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

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

explain the doctrine known as deism.

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

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

Describe the romantic movement?

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

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

when did the scientific revolution take place?

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

Define "Classical humanism"?

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

what city was the birthplace of the renaissance?

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

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

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

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

Name Bacon's publication?

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