Absolutism to Enlightenment

This is a method which involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed and formulating a hypotheses via induction; and refinement (or elimination) based on the experimental findings.

• Scientific Method

• Francis Bacon

• Hypothesis

• simony

This was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science in the 16th and 17th centuries, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, etc., transformed the views of society about nature.

• Isaac Newton

• Scientific Revolution

• nepotism

• Renaissance

This is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Universe

• helicopter

• the world man

• heliocentric model

• geocentric model

This was an influential figure who developed the field of calculus and established several fundamental physical laws

• Francis Bacon

• Galileo Galilei

• Bob

• Isaac Newton

This was an influential figure who confirmed the theories of Copernicus through observation on refined telescope

• Henry VIII

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Copernicus

This is the astronomical model in which the Sun, moon and stars revolve around the Earth.

• geocentric model

• renaissance

• heliocentric model

This figure is often credited with beginning the Scientific Revolution in 1543 with the publication of his theories about the Solar System

• Henry

• Isaac Newton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Isaac Newton

This 16th century monarch who asserted his position as the head of English Church with the Act of Supremacy

• Henry VIII

• James I

• Bob

• Snyder

This intellectual was a member of the French judiciary and wrote on the necessity of creating independent branches of government in order to help prevent an individual or group from wielding absolute state power.

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Elizabeth I

• James

This intellectual helped formulate the first set of theories which asserted the necessity of a state to prevent anarchy following the series of conflicts known as the English Civil War from 1642-1651.

• Henry

• Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu