Chapter 10.1 - The Scientific Revolution (p302-309)
Causes of the Scientific Revolution
Causes of the Scientific Revolution
- Name three Greek thinkers who has been rediscovered as a result of the Renaissance
- What two new "scopes" allowed scientists to see very small and very distant things?
- Describe two sailing innovations of James Cook, and what was he able to map as a result?
- What three mathematical subjects were created as a result of mathematical advances during this time period?
Scientific Breakthroughs
- Describe the Ptolemaic System
- Define geocentric
- Define heliocentric
- Who first proposed the heliocentric theory?
- Who provided additional evidence, and showed planets orbits were not circular but egg shaped?
- What three things did Galileo observe with his telescope?
- What group objected to Galileo's writings?
- Who established universal laws for physics that led to people seeing the world as one huge, regulated, uniform machine that operated based on natural laws?
Philosophy and Reason
- Briefly describe Rene Descartes' ideas
- Define rationalism
- Define scientific method
- Who developed the scientific method?
Chapter 10.2 - The Enlightenment (p310-317)
Path to the Enlightenment
Path to the Enlightenment
- Who argued that every person was born with a "tabula rasa" or blank mind?
- Enlightenment thinkers believed that if Newton cold discover laws governing the physical world, that they would be able to discover something else - what were they seeking?
Ideas of the Philosophes
- What word describes an intellectual of the Enlightenment?
- Describe the main ideas of Montesquieu's writings
- Describe the main ideas of Voltaire's writings
- Define deism
- What book did Diederot write, and what was it about?
New Social Sciences
- Define lassiez-faire
- Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?
- What three roles does Smith give government?
The Spread of Ideas
- Describe Jean-Jaques Rousseau's social contract
- Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women?
- What was a salon?
