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CLEP Western Civilization II: Scientific Revolution And Enlightenment
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1. To put it plainly: he dissected dead people.

2. Believed that God was not involved in the world once He created it. Believed that that they were supposed to discover laws and then teach others about the laws.

3. Was able to explain how the planets orbited. Wrote: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia). Said gravity explained the planets movement.

4. Sun-centered

5. The first person to use a telescope in a matter to study the universe. He also found out that Jupiter has four moons. Wrote Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems-Ptolemaic and Copernican and The Starry Messanger. Renounced his viewes by pre

6. Critcized the Catholic church and the French monarchy indirectly. checks and balances.

7. Said that sickness often will come from the chemical imbalences in your body.

8. Studied the circulatory system.

9. Led a rebellion against the wealthy people owning land in Russia.

10. Wrote: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (eplained the downfall of Rome)

11. Believed the heliocentric universe idea. Wrote: The New Astronomy. Assitant of Tycho Brahe and believe that God gave people brains to discover things.

12. Questioned religion and said the what people believe is something from their senses.

13. Encyclopedia - or Classified Dictionary of the Sciences - arts - and Trades

14. Believed that the government should leave the economy alone. Capitalism

15. Argued for the rights of women.

16. Russia. wrote letters to famous people of the Enlightenment like Voltaire. She also wavered about torture and the dealth penalty for ciminals.

17. Prussia. made the land better for farming. Made a bureaucracy: funtions and offices of the government.

18. Catholic. Wanted equality for everyone.

19. By Nicolauus Copernicus. They point of the book was that the sun is the center of the universe.

20. Scienctific method. inductive reasoning: information-->general theory-->multiple experimentations. Wrote: Novom Organum and Bew Atlantis.

21. Calculus. Calculating machine 30 yrs. after Pascal. Wrote: Theodicee.

22. Earth-centered

23. Noble savage. Wrote: Social Contract. general will.

24. Deist. went to France to get them to join the war for independece. Inventor

25. Did not want toture or the death penalty for criminals