1. Enlightenment Ideas Natural Law religious tolerance
Reason separation of powers
Social Contract absolutism
Deism laissez-faire

2. 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

3. 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

4. Con’t: Flemish Dr. discoveries in medicine, dissected bodies
Microscope; discovered cells

5. Exploration and voyages brought about better….
RESULT?
Exploration and voyages brought about better….

6. 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

7. SAEPARATION OF POWERS
Montesque