Ap euro ch 16 p 2
Madame du Chatelet, Voltaire's longtime companion
Believed that women's limited contribution to science was a result of unequal education
Why did Leopold II cancel his brother joseph's radical edicts in the early 1790s
Leopold was attempting to restore order in austria
Which powers participated in the partitioning of Poland in the late eighteenth century?
Prussia, Russia, and Austria
What was the core concept of the Enlightenment?
The methods of natural science should be used to examine all aspects of life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that
Women were best suited to a passive role in social relations
In historical and critical dictionary, Pierre bayle demonstrated that
all knowledge can be questioned and doubted.
The idea of the public sphere that emerged during the Enlightenment refers to
an idealized space where individuals gathered to discuss social and political issues.
According to its editor, the fundamental goal of the Encyclopedia was to
change the general way of thinking
Voltaire was a deist who viewed God as akin to a
clockmaker who set the universe in motion and then ceased to intervene in human affairs
A striking feature of the salons was that
philosophes, nobles, and members of the upper middle class intermingled.
The enlightened policies of Frederick the Great included
simplifying Prussia's laws.
What was the republic of letters
A cosmopolitan network involving Western Europe and its colonies as well as Eastern Europe and Russia