Chap 20 Quiz

• La Nauvelle He'laise (1760) -Influenced many people from every level of society to live humbler lives.
• thought that science & arts did corrupt moral
• Discourse the Effects of the Art and Sciences on Morals (1750)

method- developed scientific method

*steps to find scientific truth through observation*

invented - analytic geometry

philosophy - truth must be reached through reason, mathematics as the perfect model for clear & certain knowledge

founded the philosophical truth, "I think...therefore I am."

published - Discourse on Method (1637)

theory - that reason could not explain the problem of metaphysics

published - The Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

Suggested separating powers into three "branches" of government.

published - Spirit of Laws (1748)

• theory - planets moved in oval paths
• - moved faster closer to the earth

theory - not all heavenly bodies revolved around the earth

invention - perfected the telescope

discovered the nature of combustion

wrote books promoting Bacon's philosophy & Newton's science

Candide - challenged the notion that everything that happens is for the best in "the best of all possible worlds."

used natural law for absolute monarchy was the best form of government

published - Leviathon

discovered that air is NOT a basic element

translated her husbands scientific books and essays into English and Latin

made illustrations for his writings

discovered the cell

ground breaking discoveries in human anatomy

dissected human bodies

published - The Structure of the Human Body (1543)

developed calculus*

*a system of mathematics that calculates changing forces or quantities

published - theories about concepts about gravity & other scientific concepts in Principia (1687)

theory - force of gravity not only prevents objects from flying off the revolving earth

• led a movement called Methodism
• - it stressed the value of personal religious experience

discovered oxygen

invented carbonated drinks

announced that blood circulates through the body

• theory - natural law
• - people in a state of nature are reasonable and moral and that they have natural rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

Rights of the People

• theory - earth was round & rotated on its axis
• - sun was in the middle of the universe
• - circle rotation