Exam 10: Intellectual Transformation: the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Aristotelian-Ptolemaic System

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Which characteristics of the philosophes illustrate a new way of looking at the world? List three major philosophes and comment upon their major contributions.

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Discuss the relationships of both Copernicus and Galileo to the Roman Church.

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).    -On a blank map of Europe,show where the following individuals worked: Isaac Newton,Tycho Brahe,Galileo Galilei,Nicholas Copernicus,and René Descartes. -On a blank map of Europe,show where the following individuals worked: Isaac Newton,Tycho Brahe,Galileo Galilei,Nicholas Copernicus,and René Descartes.

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Deism

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -the Congregation of the Index

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____ argued that passages from the Bible had no authority in questions involving nature.

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Which of the following was a recognized leader of the French Enlightenment?

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How did the new scientific approach to nature raise some concerns among the Roman Catholic hierarchy? How would you typify their response?

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Which of the following wrote,An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?

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Medieval thinkers constructed a coherent picture of the universe that blended the theories of which of the following ancient Greeks?

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Which of the following ended the medieval division of the cosmos into higher and lower worlds with different laws operating in each realm?

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What was the general thinking of the philosophes in regard to gender?

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______________ wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding.​

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Central to the practice of modern science is the experimental method of investigation and testing scientific theories.Who were some of the pioneers of experimental method in the Scientific Revolution and what were their achievements?

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -William Harvey

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -epicycles

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -enlightened despotism

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Discuss the contributions of Montesquieu to modern political theory.

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