Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

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Galileo Galilei’s use of the telescope highlights the importance of what approach to scientific discoveries?

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Observation and experimentation

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Nicolaus Copernicus created the __________ theory, in which the sun was at the center of the universe.

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Heliocentric

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What did John Locke say people should do if their natural rights are not protected?

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People should overthrow and establish a new government.

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Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan (1651) which favored absolute monarchy in the wake of which conflict?

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English Civil War

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What disease did English physician Edward Jenner create a vaccine for by using cowpox?

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smallpox

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What did Mary Wollstonecraft argue / advocate for in her 1792 essay A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?

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Women's rights and education.

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How did Johannes Kepler revise Copernicus’ heliocentric theory?

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Kepler proposed that planets move in elliptical orbits.

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What did the British physician William Harvey study?

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The circulation of blood.

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Sir Isaac Newton explained the movement of planets that the initial heliocentric theory could not through what mathematical theory?

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Law of universal gravitation

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Before the Scientific Revolution, what was the accepted view of the universe?

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The geocentric model, with Earth at the center of the universe.