Absolutism, Scientific Revolution

The concept that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.

• Geocentric Theory

• Scientific Method

• Absoliutism

• heliocentric theory

This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical, the planets do not orbit at a constant speed, and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun.

• Newton

• Maria Curie

• Kepler

• Copernicus

Created his own version of the telescope and ; stated the Heliocentric Theory was accurate & challenged the church views

• Kepler

• Cavendish

• Newton

• Galileo

Laws of gravity- all objects on earth and in the universe are controlled by this

• Galileo

• Newton

• Ptolemy

• Bacon

Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

• Vesalius

• Bacon

• Descartes

• Harvey

A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.

• Enlightenment

• Geocentric Theory

• Ptolemy

• Scientific Revolution

A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power, and rules with Divine Right

• Enlightenment

• Democracy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Dictatorship

An absolute ruler, taxed people, waged war, revoked religious tolerance in France & built the Palace of Versailles

• Louis XVIII

• Louis XIV

• King WIlliam

• Phillip II

During the Absolutism period, European monarchs moved towards complete control.

• True

• False

King Louis XIV left France with a large amount of wealth, making it far more powerful than England and Germany combined.

• True

• False