Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Study Guide
Complete at least 2 thinkers and 2 scientists
Thinker/Scientist
Locke
Their Beliefs / Contribution (use DETAIL)
Montesquieu
Beccaria
Voltaire
Copernicus/Galileo
Kepler/Newton
Bacon / Descartes
How did Hobbes and Locke differ in their views?
Describe the “old ideas” or “traditional thought” about science and government
How do logic and reason fit in with the Scientific Revolution and the
Enlightenment?
Explain how the Scientific Revolution of the 1600’s led to the Enlightenment.
Describe the Enlightenment as a time period. (What was happening, what were
thinkers doing?)
What did Bacon and Descartes contribute to the Scientific Revolution?
On what did Bacon say scientists should base their thinking?
Enlightenment ideas most impacted what aspect of society?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Natural laws
questioning
government
Reason
logic
observation
The Scientific Revolution was a new way of thinking based on experiments,
____________________ and a willingness to _________________ old beliefs.
Scientists like Bacon and Newton discovered _______________________ that
governed the earth and space. Enlightenment philosophers expanded these ideas
and tried to use __________ and ________________ to make a better society.
These thinkers thought natural laws also governed people. Therefore, much
Enlightenment writing was concerned with the relationship between people and
their _________________________.