Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

Ptolemy is credited with the ______ model of the solar system.

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• eurocentric

• gravitational

Nicolas Copernicus is credited with the development of the ______ solar system.

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• eurocentric

• gravitational

What is Galileo most famous for?

• Discovering the mathematical proof for gravity

• The use of a telescope to examine the moon and give a proof for the heliocentric solar system.

• Demonstrating the elliptical orbits of the planets.

• Writing a treatise on free market economic systems?

Isaac Newton is best known for:

• developing math to demonstrate gravity and forces of motion.

• discovering how capillaries work in the human body.

• elliptical orbits of the planets.

• the development of the Special Theory of Relativity.

Who is credited with developing the Scientific Method?

• Francis Bacon

• Robert Hooke

• Blaise Pascal

• Robert Boyle

Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) was a philosophical idea to try and explain how one could know anything. It was developed by:

• Rene Descartes

• Isaac Newton

• John Locke

• Jean Jacques-Rousseau

John Locke believed that people were essentially:

• Tabula Rasa

• sinful

• saint and sinner

• aliens

From Baron Montesquieu we get:

• Separation of power

• Free market economics

• Democracy

• Leviathan

Voltaire was a propenent of Deism, which has been described as:

• God as clockmaker

• God as loving father

• God as a myth

In his book, Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith advocates for laissez faire economics meaning:

• the government should interfere as little as possible in the economy.

• economys of the world should be fair.

• governments should tightly control their economies.

• money is evil.