All About the Enlightenment: The Age of Reason

microscopes

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke used ___________ in their studies.

Isaac Newton

Laws of gravity an motion were formulated by ____________ in the 1660s.

reason

The human ability to ______ was glorified during the Enlightenment

True

True or False: Electricity was studied during the Enlightenment era.

False

True or False: Most of the main ideas put forth by the political philosophers of the Enlightenment era were rejected by the leaders of the American and French Revolutions.

True

True or False: The leading figures of the Enlightenment era glorified reason (rational thought).

Francis Bacon; René Descartes

_____________ and ______________ are credited with developing the "scientific method."

Carolus Linnaeus

_______________ devised a system for classifying living things.