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
