Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment Review

John Locke argued that all people had the right to ________________. 

• Own slaves

• Choose their religious beliefs

• Pursuit of happiness

• Life, liberty, and property

Copernicus was the first modern scientist to think...

• The universe is geocentric.

• Gravity causes things to fall at the same rate.

• The earth is the center of the universe.

• The sun is the center of the universe.

Galileo was brought before the Church and charged with heresy because...

• He published a book agreeing with the heliocentric theory.

• He criticized the Pope because he wanted a divorce.

• He wanted to marry an English princess.

• He published a book about humanism. 

Isaac Newton studied 3 branches of SCIENCE:

• Legislative, executive, and judicial

• Church, school, factories

• Physics, gravity, motion

• Calculus, physics, and government

Why did the Roman Catholic Church take so long to embrace the heliocentric theory?

• Jesus walked the Earth; therefore Earth must be the most important and at the center.

• Ptolemy was a famous priest who donated a lot of money to the Church.

• Catholic leaders did not want people questioning what was true because it may lead to people questioning the Church. 

• They were angry at Galileo and never wanted to admit he was correct. 

Sir Francis Bacon developed the idea that things could be proven through observation.  What was this called? 

• Scientific Method

• Divine Right of Kings

• Geocentric view of the universe

• Humanism

A period during the 1600s and 1700s when people used reason to guide people's thoughts about society. 

• Enlightenment

• Captialism

• Renaissance

• Reformation

Which French Enlightenment thinker promoted the idea of separation of power? 

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Rene Descartes

• Charles-Louis Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is the step-by-step process for performing scientific research?

• Scientific Revolution

• Newton's Law of Motion

• Scientific Method

• Heliocentric Theory

What place was the center of the Enlightenment?

• Italy 

• England 

• France 

• Spain