Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment Vocabulary

Flemish physician who made monumental contributions to human anatomy

• Francis Bacon

• Rene Descartes

• Andreas Vesalius

• Ptolemy

18th-century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society

• Enlightenment

• Reformation

• Renaissance

• Scientific Revolution

Englishman who encouraged empiricism that became a major tenant of the scientific method

• Rene Descartes

• Montesquieu

• Francis Bacon

• Andreas Vesalius

Italian astronomer tried by the Catholic Church for his discoveries that supported the heliocentric theory

• Voltaire

• Ptolemy

• Galileo

• Kepler

Theory of the universe in which Earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe

• Copernicus's Model

• Geocentric Theory

• Heliocentric Theory

• Foscarini's Orbits

Theory of the universe in which the sun was an immovable object located at the center of the universe and the planets orbit it

• Saturn Theory

• Geocentric Theory

• Heliocentric Theory

• Elliptical Orbits

English scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity

• Isaac Newton

• Francis Bacon

• Rene Descartes

• Andreas Vesalius

German astronomer who was able to mathematically prove that planets move around the sun in an elliptical orbit, not a circular one

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

English philosopher who believed that all people are born with natural rights of life, liberty and property

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

English writer & philosopher who argued for women in education, politics, and beyond

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Mary Wollstronecraft

• Voltaire