Enlightenment/ Age of Reason

Credited with developing the "scientific method"

Bacon and Descartes

Considered to be the "Fathers of the Enlightenment"

Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes

Who advocated belief in Empiricism- that sensory experience is the only true source of knowledge? he also advocated that government should only exist for the governed, and that should be more religious toleration.

John Locke

Who said "I think, therefore I am"?

Rene Descartes

The "Father of modern chemistry", he formulated laws for gases.

Robert Boyle

Used microscopes in their studies

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek and Robert hooke

Swedish botanist who devised a system for classifying living things

Carl Linnaeus

Discovered the sun was at the center of the universe

Copernicus

True or False/ Deists and Catholics had almost identical ideas about religion

False

True or False/ Science during the Enlightenment era advanced more slowly than during the Renaissance.

False

Constructed the first telescope and confirmed Copernicus' theory

Galileo

Formulated laws of gravity and motion in the 1660's

Isaac Newton

Formulated the three laws of planetary motion

Kepler

The erosion of religion as the source of authority was the hallmark(main result) of the Enlightenment. The new viewpoint this engendered was called ___________

Secularism (urged that people should practice any religion they wanted or none at all.)

True or False/ Electricity was studied during the Enlightenment

True

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)

True

Developed the theory of the circulation of blood

William Harvey

The historical period during which the "scientific revolution" began

the Renaissance