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WorksheetsScientific Rev. and Enlightenment Thinkers review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 22mins
Which of the following is not a ancient contributor to the ideas of science and the universe
Aristotle
Nicolas Orejme
Ptoloemy
Archimedes
Galen
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.
Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Rene Descartes
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.
Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Rene Descartes
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.
Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Rene Descartes
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
Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Rene Descartes
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...
Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Rene Descartes
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.
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Paschal
Gottfried Leibniz
Robert Boyle
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.
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Paschal
Gottfried Leibniz
Robert Boyle
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.
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Paschal
Gottfried Leibniz
Robert Boyle
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.
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Paschal
Gottfried Leibniz
Robert Boyle
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
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Paschal
Gottfried Leibniz
Robert Boyle
Which of the following was not an effect of the Scientific Rev. on Society?
Legitimized fields outside of theology
Gov. began to fund or promote scientific projects
Women were encouraged to enter the scientific fields
Had limited early effects on the economy or society in general outside of some different areas of labor.
NAME THAT THINKER:
Inventor of the above device. A simple microscope, he used it to analyze pond scum...and other stuff
Robert Hooke
Antoine Leeuwenhoek
William Harvey
Andreas Vesalius
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.
Robert Hooke
Antoine Leeuwenhoek
William Harvey
Andreas Vesalius
NAME THAT THINKER:
Inventor of the above device, a complex microscope he used to draw and analyze insects and even cork cells
Robert Hooke
Antoine Leeuwenhoek
William Harvey
Andreas Vesalius
NAME THAT THINKER:
Used his medical expertise to analyze the human circulatory system.
Robert Hooke
Antoine Leeuwenhoek
William Harvey
Andreas Vesalius
Which of the following was not a cause of the Enlightenment
The backlash of the Thirty Years War
The Scientific Rev.
The Absolutist Era
The Black Death
MULTI ANSWER!!!
Which two thinkers were products of the English Civil War? YOU NEED TO FOREVER REMEMBER THEM AND THEIR IDEAS...FOREVER
Thomas Hobbes
James Stuart
Gottfried Leibniz
John Locke
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.
Skepticism
The Royal Creed
Natural Philosophy
Assumptionism
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.
Pierre Bayle
Voltaire
Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui
Denis Diderot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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.
Pierre Bayle
Voltaire
Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui
Denis Diderot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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.
Pierre Bayle
Voltaire
Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui
Denis Diderot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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.
Pierre Bayle
Voltaire
Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui
Denis Diderot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
Pierre Bayle
Voltaire
Baron De Montesquiuiuiuiuiuiui
Denis Diderot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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.
Adam Smith
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
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.
Adam Smith
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
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.
Adam Smith
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Which of the following was not an element of The Enlightenment Society
Salons!
Reading Revolution and The Public Sphere
Progression of Art from Baroque to Rococo
Re-enforced the ideas of racism instead of rejecting them
The poor celebrated the ideas of the enlightenment
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
Frederick II
Catherine The Great
The Austrian Habsburg's
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.
Frederick II
Catherine The Great
The Austrian Habsburg's
