Scientific Revolution and age of Enlightenment

Who argued for social contract?

• Ptolemy

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

• John Locke

Called for a geocentric theory of the universe

• Rene Descartes

• Ptolemy

• Francis Bacon

• Thomas Hobbes

First European to use a telescope to understand and figure out astronomy

• Isaac Newton

• Rousseau

• Galileo Galilei

• Copernicus

Refers to the rapid, advancing changes in science, mathematics, and political thought

• Enlightenment

• Rapid changing era

• The Great Awakening

• Scientific Revolution

Argued that women “think”, which means they are entitled to the same equal rights as men

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Wonder Woman

• Michelle Obama

• Susan B. Anthony

“I think, therefore I am”: separation of mind and body

• Rene Descartes

• Adam Smith

• Francis Bacon

• Galileo Galilei

Debunked the Catholic Church with his heliocentric theory

• Ptolemy

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Nicholas Copernicus

Argued all humans were selfish creatures

• Adam Behl

• Thomas Hobbes

• Isaac Newton

• Adam Smith

Argued for religious toleration and fought against religious intoleration

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Johannes Keplar

• Voltaire

• Rene Descartes

Credited for developing the scientific method

• Michael Parham

• Isaac Newton

• Francis Bacon

• Voltaire