HIS 102

Marie-Therese Geoffrin

• Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas

• Famous Salon hostess. Invited brilliant minds including Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, and Diderot. Made exchange of ideas fashionable.

• Philosopher who edited a book called the Encyclopedia which was banned by the French king and pope.

• Compilation of scientific and philosophical writings, won a wide audience and a few made their fortune off of it.

Denis Diderot

• Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas

• Famous Salon hostess. Invited brilliant minds including Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, and Diderot. Made exchange of ideas fashionable.

• Philosopher who edited a book called the Encyclopedia which was banned by the French king and pope.

• Compilation of scientific and philosophical writings, won a wide audience and a few made their fortune off of it.

Encyclopedia Britannica

• Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas

• Famous Salon hostess. Invited brilliant minds including Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, and Diderot. Made exchange of ideas fashionable.

• Philosopher who edited a book called the Encyclopedia which was banned by the French king and pope.

• Compilation of scientific and philosophical writings, won a wide audience and a few made their fortune off of it.

Joseph Priestly

• discovered oxygen

• law of conservation of mass

• invented electricity

• English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).

Antoine Lavoisier

• discovered oxygen

• law of conservation of mass

• invented electricity

• English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).

Ben Franklin

• discovered oxygen

• law of conservation of mass

• invented electricity

• English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).

Captain James Cook

• discovered oxygen

• law of conservation of mass

• invented electricity

• English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).

Royal Society of London

• the leading English scientific organization, made up of leading merchants, planters and even theologians, all devoted to the discoveries of scientific ideas.

• The overall deadliest known disease in the history of the world. In the 20th century alone there were approximately 500,000,000 people who died of this disease.

• invited both men and women to a series of literary and political discussions in her home

• injecting a person with a small dose of a dead virus to help build up defenses to a disease

Smallpox

• the leading English scientific organization, made up of leading merchants, planters and even theologians, all devoted to the discoveries of scientific ideas.

• The overall deadliest known disease in the history of the world. In the 20th century alone there were approximately 500,000,000 people who died of this disease.

• invited both men and women to a series of literary and political discussions in her home

• injecting a person with a small dose of a dead virus to help build up defenses to a disease

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

• injecting a person with a small dose of a dead virus to help build up defenses to a disease

• the leading English scientific organization, made up of leading merchants, planters and even theologians, all devoted to the discoveries of scientific ideas.

• The overall deadliest known disease in the history of the world. In the 20th century alone there were approximately 500,000,000 people who died of this disease.

• invited both men and women to a series of literary and political discussions in her home