Exam 11: Enlightenment: Science and the New Learning

Which nineteenth-century composer, who wrote the piece nicknamed "The Surprise," is often called the "father of the symphony"?

Which of the following men was NOT a significant figure in the movement known as the Scientific Revolution?

Progress, human perfectibility, and political equality were among the ideals of Enlightenment thinkers. Which landmark works asserted or defended these ideals? Which offered a critical view of these ideals?

"Whatever is, is right" reflects the philosophic optimism of

In his Novum Organum, Bacon objected to

The belief in a mechanistic universe fashioned by a Creator God who does not directly intervene in its affairs is called

Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson were both noted eighteenth-century writers of which new literary form?

Compare the Rococo and Neoclassical styles, explaining the ways in which each reflects the aims, ambitions, and tastes of the European Enlightenment.