Enlightenment Ideas Natural Law religious tolerance Reason separation of powers Social Contract absolutism Deism laissez-faire
WHO or WHAT? Government should protect people’s rights Sun-centered theory Age of a new way of thinking, changing the way we understand science and search for knowledge Using reason and experience to solve Substance of only one kind of atom Worked with/discovered gases Agreement between government and people
Continued: Steps for orderly search for knowledge Applied to everyone, can be understood by reason Religious belief based on reason Overthrow of James II Total control/power Proved all matter is made up of elements Solar system is held together by gravity
Con’t: Flemish Dr. discoveries in medicine, dissected bodies Microscope; discovered cells
Exploration and voyages brought about better…. RESULT? Exploration and voyages brought about better….
GALILEO ROBERT BOYLE PETER THE GREAT NEWTON LAVOISIER KEPLER LOCKE JAMES II COPERNICUS HOBBS MONTESQUIEU DESCARTES VOLTAIRE DIDEROT PTOLEMY WILLIAM AND MARY ROUSSEAU BACON GALEN WOLLSTONECRAFT CATHERINE THE GREAT ANDREAS VESALIUS MARIA TERESA ROBERT HOOKE FREDERICK THE GREAT
SAEPARATION OF POWERS Montesque