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Scientific Rev. and Enlightenment Thinkers review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is not a ancient contributor to the ideas of science and the universe

a)

Aristotle

b)

Nicolas Orejme

c)

Ptoloemy

d)

Archimedes

e)

Galen

2.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Writer of "De Rev.", proposed a heliocentric universe in an easy to read and understand text that he believed componsated for Retrograde Motion.

a)

Copernicus

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Tycho Brahe

d)

Galileo Galilei

e)

Rene Descartes

3.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Proposed an odd set up of the universe where the Moon and sun went around the earth but all the planets went around the sun. Created the Rudolphine Tables after analyzing the night sky, discovering a star being born, and the location of 777 different stars.

a)

Copernicus

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Tycho Brahe

d)

Galileo Galilei

e)

Rene Descartes

4.

NAME THAT THINKER:

This thinker took the information from the Rudolphine Tables and used it to create a Heliocentric model of the universe that could measure the speed of the planets, construct elliptical orbits, and give a legitimate model to the universe.

a)

Copernicus

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Tycho Brahe

d)

Galileo Galilei

e)

Rene Descartes

5.

NAME THAT THINKER:

This thinker died under House Arrest after attesting in his Dialogue on the Two world systems where he made the Catholic perspective appear stupid...ironically enough he had already proved the heliocentric model with his new developed telescopes and the information he acquired about the moon and the moons of jupiter

a)

Copernicus

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Tycho Brahe

d)

Galileo Galilei

e)

Rene Descartes

6.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Writer of the Discourse on method that discusses the ideas that God is the great giver of knowledge that has given us a mind and consciousness that is strong enough to interprit and mold the physical world, leading to the constant idea of can we trust the world before use..do we exist...he also apparently invented graphs...

a)

Copernicus

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Tycho Brahe

d)

Galileo Galilei

e)

Rene Descartes

7.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Wealthy English Statesman that created the ideas of the scientific and empiric methods. He advocated in his book "New Atlantis" that science should DIRECTLY help the human race. Came up with the idea of the Salomon house that would create and use the science to make products to help all people, died stuffing a chicken with snow.

a)

Sir Francis Bacon

b)

Sir Isaac Newton

c)

Blaise Paschal

d)

Gottfried Leibniz

e)

Robert Boyle

8.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Thinker that advocated along with Descartes about the ideas of faith and existence. While many were being accused of atheism, aswell as belittling faith, he came up with a "wager" where he advocated for faith during the era of science.

a)

Sir Francis Bacon

b)

Sir Isaac Newton

c)

Blaise Paschal

d)

Gottfried Leibniz

e)

Robert Boyle

9.

NAME THAT THINKER:

German born noble and wealthy genius. He was the science officer for the Holy Roman Empire and created Calculus at the same time that one of our other thinkers. He however accused the other of being an occultist and ungodly for creating a universe with an unseen force that held the planets in place.

a)

Sir Francis Bacon

b)

Sir Isaac Newton

c)

Blaise Paschal

d)

Gottfried Leibniz

e)

Robert Boyle

10.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Leader of the British royal society, writer of the "Principia", "on optics" (dealing with light and the color spectrum), and "the history of fishes". He used these texts to explain the law of universal gravitation and calculus.

a)

Sir Francis Bacon

b)

Sir Isaac Newton

c)

Blaise Paschal

d)

Gottfried Leibniz

e)

Robert Boyle

11.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Father of Modern Chemistry from Britain and member of the Royal Society, he used his touted vacuum chamber to prove his ideas about the pressure of a gas in a container will increase if the volume of the container decreases

a)

Sir Francis Bacon

b)

Sir Isaac Newton

c)

Blaise Paschal

d)

Gottfried Leibniz

e)

Robert Boyle

12.

Which of the following was not an effect of the Scientific Rev. on Society?

a)

Legitimized fields outside of theology

b)

Gov. began to fund or promote scientific projects

c)

Women were encouraged to enter the scientific fields

d)

Had limited early effects on the economy or society in general outside of some different areas of labor.

13.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Inventor of the above device. A simple microscope, he used it to analyze pond scum...and other stuff

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Antoine Leeuwenhoek

c)

William Harvey

d)

Andreas Vesalius

14.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Writer of "On the Fabric of the Human Body" where he documented his trials of dissecting human bodies and peeling back the skin to discover the structure of the human form, how it operated, and the exact structure and connections of muscles, bones, etc.

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Antoine Leeuwenhoek

c)

William Harvey

d)

Andreas Vesalius

15.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Inventor of the above device, a complex microscope he used to draw and analyze insects and even cork cells

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Antoine Leeuwenhoek

c)

William Harvey

d)

Andreas Vesalius

16.

NAME THAT THINKER:

Used his medical expertise to analyze the human circulatory system.

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Antoine Leeuwenhoek

c)

William Harvey

d)

Andreas Vesalius

17.

Which of the following was not a cause of the Enlightenment

a)

The backlash of the Thirty Years War

b)

The Scientific Rev.

c)

The Absolutist Era

d)

The Black Death

18.

MULTI ANSWER!!!

Which two thinkers were products of the English Civil War? YOU NEED TO FOREVER REMEMBER THEM AND THEIR IDEAS...FOREVER

a)

Thomas Hobbes

b)

James Stuart

c)

Gottfried Leibniz

d)

John Locke

19.

What am I describing,

The philosophical idea that nothing can be taken at face value or just generally assumed, all things must be analyzed and seen for their ideas and sometimes inaccuracies.

a)

Skepticism

b)

The Royal Creed

c)

Natural Philosophy

d)

Assumptionism

20.

NAME THAT PHILOSOPH!

Critic of Louis XIV, lived in the Netherlands where he wrote his "Dictionary". He was a profound skeptic that criticized religious turmoil of the era, advocated for both the Protestans and the Catholics.

a)

Pierre Bayle

b)

Voltaire

c)

Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui

d)

Denis Diderot

e)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

21.

NAME THAT PHILOSOPH!

Writer of the Persian Letters, where he mocked european culture, and on the Spirit of Laws where he advocated for the seperation of gov. powers to prevent one branch from growing to powerful.

a)

Pierre Bayle

b)

Voltaire

c)

Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui

d)

Denis Diderot

e)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

22.

NAME THAT PHILOSOPH!

Writer of Candide and the premier satirist. He was saved by a french noble family, The Chatelet family, where the madame advocated for his genius. Advocated for the noble monarch and the kind Machiavellian leader. He believed that people weren't equal however the strong must be prevented from taking advantage of the weak.

a)

Pierre Bayle

b)

Voltaire

c)

Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui

d)

Denis Diderot

e)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

23.

NAME THAT PHILOSOPH!

Creator of the Encyclopedia....added to the list of banned books by the church along with the Spirit of Laws and De Rev. , ironically the russians printed his encyclopedia.

a)

Pierre Bayle

b)

Voltaire

c)

Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui

d)

Denis Diderot

e)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

24.

NAME THAT PHILOSOPH!

Writer of the Social Contract theory where he believed that the people had the right to revolt if the gov. is not protecting their natural freedoms...he also thought personal property was the root of all evil and that men are naturally good...could be considered the first socialist...ewwww

a)

Pierre Bayle

b)

Voltaire

c)

Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui

d)

Denis Diderot

e)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

25.

Name that thinker...thats not a philosoph...because they aren't French:

Writer of the Wealth of Nations and the first person to define a capital system. Used his ideas to explain the "invisible hand" of competition and how a truly competitive economy will bolster the economies of the world.

a)

Adam Smith

b)

David Hume

c)

Immanuel Kant

26.

Name that thinker...thats not a philosoph...because they aren't French:

Creator of the Categorical imperative and an extremely prolific prussian enlightenment thinker when it comes to the duality of good and evil, politics, ideas on religion, etc. Some of his biggest theories have to do with the ideas that men should never be a means to an end and should also every action should be doable to every person to keep all people happy.

a)

Adam Smith

b)

David Hume

c)

Immanuel Kant

27.

Name that thinker...thats not a philosoph...because they aren't French:

The father of Religious Skepticism and Empirical Learning models. Believed that all learning is just impressions of experience on our minds (Angel=birdperson) he was accused of being an atheist...he never denied it.

a)

Adam Smith

b)

David Hume

c)

Immanuel Kant

28.

Which of the following was not an element of The Enlightenment Society

a)

Salons!

b)

Reading Revolution and The Public Sphere

c)

Progression of Art from Baroque to Rococo

d)

Re-enforced the ideas of racism instead of rejecting them

e)

The poor celebrated the ideas of the enlightenment

29.

NAME THAT ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTIST:

Son of the Soldier King of Prussia, outlawed torture of prisoners and increased the size and economy of his native Prussia. Promoted Education systems and advocated Cameralism: the deviding of the bureacratic state under a good monarch promote the wellbeing of a country and its people

a)

Frederick II

b)

Catherine The Great

c)

The Austrian Habsburg's

30.

NAME THAT ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTIST:

Daughter of a German Prince, married to the Romanov King Peter III, convinced her lover Gregory Orlov to assassinate her husband after alienating and army when she disbanded a plot against Frederick II of Prussia. She advocated for less torture! spread intelligence and grew the borders of Russia.

a)

Frederick II

b)

Catherine The Great

c)

The Austrian Habsburg's