Chapter 17 Identifiers to Know
Natural philosophy
Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the
Heavenly Spheres
Copernican hypothesis
heliocentric view
Experimental method
law of inertia
law of universal gravitation
Francis Bacon
empiricism
inductive method
Rene Descartes
deductive reasoning
cogito ergo sum (“I think; therefore, I am”)
Cartesian dualism
Enlightenment
rationalism
philosophes
Baruch Spinoza
reading revolution
salons
rococo
public sphere
enlightened absolutism
cameralism
Haskalah
Scientific Revolution
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
3 laws of planetary motion
Galileo, Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of
the World
laws of motion
telescope
scientific method
Isaac Newton
Principle of universal gravitation
Principia, 1687
Vesalius, On the Structure of the Human Body
William Harvey
Robert Boyle
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Royal Society
Enlightenment
Deism
John Locke, Two Treatieses of Civil
Government, Essay Concerning Human
Understanding
Tabula rasa
Philosophes
Voltaire
Marquise de Châtelet
“Ecracsez l’infame”
Baron de Monstesquieu, Spirit of Laws
checks and balances
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Social Contract, 1762
general will
“noble savage”
Denis Diderot, The Encyclopedia
Marquis de Beccaria
Francois Quesnay
physiocrates
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
salon movement
Mary Wollestonecraft
Baron Paul d’Holbach
David Hume
Jean de Condorcet
Immanuel Kant
classical liberalism
German pietism
Methodism
John Wesley
Jansenism
Enlightened Despotism
Frederick the Great
War of Austrian Succession
Silesia
Seven Years’ War
“Diplomatic Revolution of 1756”
Treaty of Paris
“first servant of the state”
Catherine the Great
Pugachev Rebellion
Polish partitions
liberum veto
Maria Theresa
Pragmatic Sanction of 1713
Joseph II