Chapter 9 Flashcards
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French king who was one of the most successful monarchs of his time and had unlimited power over his poeple
Louis XIV
Reingned in Russia and increased the power of the Russian monarchy
Catherine the Great
Resulted in the establishment of the Protecturant
English Civil War
Led Parliaments army against the kings forces and defeated them
Oliver Cromwell
Government founded by Oliver Cromwell after the English Civil War
Protectorate
He took the English throne after Cromwell death
Charles II
Set limits on royal power, granted the Engish people basic civil liberties and prevented future rulers from being Roman Catholics
English Bill of Rights
Signed the English bill of rights in exchange for the throne
William and Mary
Change of power in England in 1688 without resorting to war
Glorious Revalution
A Greek physician who was also known as the father of Medicine
Hipporcrates
Mathematician who wrote Elements and was also known as the father of geometry
Euclid
Early Greek astronomer and geography who determine the distance around the earth with great accuracy
Eratosthenes
Made significant contributions in the areas of physics geography and optics
Roger 🥓
Presented his view that the earth revolved around the sun, not the sun around the earth
Copernicus
Used the newly invented telescope for his observations his results supported Copernicus’s ideas
Galileo Galilei
Spent much of his life contributing to astronomy and discovered Uranus and made the big telescope
William Herschel
Scientist that started treating bodies with chemicals
Paracelsus
His work was based on anatomy by dissecting human bodies
Andreas Vesalius
Discovered that blood is pumped by the heart, travels through the body in blood vessels and returns to the heart in the circulatory system
William Harvey
Father of modern chemistry
Antoine Lavoisier
Believed that rationalism was insufficient and argued in favor of empiricism
Me
Read the Bible as a historical artifact rather than a revelation from God
Spinoza
Belief that the path to truth is through human reason
Rationalism
Belief that man can find knowledge only through experience
Empirsism