The Enlightenment

The earth-centered view of the solar system was called a geocentric theory

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The Scientific Revolution was a time when natural philosophers or scientists disputed many old ideas about the natural world.

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• False

Voltaire reasoned that the stars and planets revolved around the sun, an idea that became known as the heliocentric theory.

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• False

Nicolaus Copernicus's reasoned that the stars and planets revolved around the sun, an idea that became known as the heliocentric theory..

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• False

After viewing Jupiter’s moons and confirming Copernicus's theory, Galileo Galilei recanted his ideas because he was threatened by the church.

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• False

The Heliocentric theory Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon helped to developed was a new way to answer scientific questions.

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• False

Described in his book Principia, Isaac Newton describes his laws of motion and gravity.

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____________________________ was an intellectual movement that stressed reason and brought about great change to society.

• The Enlightenment
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Voltaire

_______________________________ was the writer of Leviathan and believed people were naturally selfish and greedy.

• The Enlightenment
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Voltaire

______________________________ developed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and property and believed all knowledge came from experience. Was considered the Father of Liberalism.

• The Enlightenment
• Thomas Hobbess
• John Locke
• Voltaire