Ap Euro Ch.16 Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
How did the Enlightenment thinkers differ from those of the Middle ages and the Renaissance?
Enlightenment thinkers believed that their era surpassed antiquity, which demonstrated the possibility of human progress.
A striking feature of salons was that...
philosophes, nobles, and members of the upper middle class intermingled.
Francis Bacon formalized the research methods of Tycho Brahe and Galileo into the theory of reasoning known as...
empiricism
What was the core concept of the Enlightenment?
The methods of natural science should be used to examine all aspects of life.
How did Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation bring the Scientific Revolution to maturity?
It synthesized mathematics with physics and astronomy to demonstrate that the entire universe was unified into one coherent system.
Which of the following correctly characterizes the response of various religious perspectives to Nicolaus Copernicus' hypothesis?
Protestants rejected Copernicus' idea that the earth moved, while the Catholic Church largely overlooked his theory until declaring the hypothesis false in the seventeenth century.
How did governments respond to the new science?
They established academies of science to support and sometimes direct scientific research.
How did the idea of "race" transform the Europeans' idea of their superiority over other peoples?
European superior was increasingly defined as biologically superior as well as culturally superior.
The influential intellectual and cultural movement of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that introduced a new worldview based on the use of reason, the scientific method, and progress.
Enlightenment
Voltaire was a deist who viewed God as akin to a...
clockmaker who set the univers in motion and then ceased to intervene in human affairs
A theory of inductive reasoning that calls for acquiring evidence through observation and experimentation rather than deductive reason and speculation.
empiricism
Copernicus' theory of the universe...
postulated a sun-centered view of the universe
The concept of the readin revolution refers to the...
shift from reading texts aloud as a family to reading diverse texts individually.