Chapter 16&17 Quiz

A major inspiration for travel literature in the 18th century were the Pacific Ocean exploits of

Captain James Cook

Cogito ergo sum means

I think, therefore i am

In whose system of the social contract would individuals be "forced to be free"?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

the founder of Methodism with its emphasis on piety and devotion was

John Wesley

The role of women in the Scientific Revolution is illustrated by

Margaret Cavendish, who participated in her day's scientific debates

The center of the Enlightenment was

Paris

The thinker who first dealt with what human existence means in an infinite cosmos was

Pascal

ohn Locke's philosophy emphasized that ideas and a person't character are shaped by

environment, not innate ideas

Enlightened thinkers can be understood as secularists because they strongly recommended

he application of scientific method to all aspects of human life

Newton's universal law of gravitation proved that

motion in the universe operated on a series of distinct universal laws

The ideas of Copernicus were

nearly as complicated as those of Ptolemy

One of the dramatic findings of Galileo's observations was that

planets were made of similar substances as the Earth's

Charles de Brosses is the philosophe best associated with the theory of

primitive mind

Galileo's ideas on motion included the

principle of inertia

Of great importance to the Enlightenment were the salons, which

provided a forum for discussion the ideas of the philosophes

The early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia was

the Marquise du Chatelet

The French philophes mostly included people from

the nobility and midle class

Saving the Appearences means

the use of mathematical devices to calculate and predict celestial motion without assuming that they represented the real structures of the universe

Unlike many Protestants, The Catholic Church did not denounce and condemn the theories of Copernicus until the works of Galileo appeared over 75 years later.

true

During the 17th century, royal and princely patronage of science

was motivated by numerous factors including prestige, fostering new technologies, and providing expertise to rulers