AP World Chapter 17 People Flashcards

304357656	Wollstonecraft	English Enlightenment thinker who argued that the new political rights and freedoms should extend to women	0
304357657	Frederick the Great	Claiming to be an enlightened despot, he ruled Prussia by building on the military and bureaucratic organization of his predecessors	1
304357658	Copernicus	Polish monk who, in the 16th century, argued that the planets move around the sun rather than the earth	2
304357659	Harvey	English physician who demonstrated the circular movement of the blood in animals, with the heart as the "central pumping station"	3
304357660	Galileo	Italian scientist who publicized Copernicus' discoveries and added his own basic findings about planetary motions, which were condemned by the Church	4
304357661	Diderot	Leader of the French Enlightenment who is best known for his editorial work on the Encyclopedie that compiled scientific and social scientific knowledge	5
304357663	Louis XIV	Absolute monarch of France who built the sumptuous palace at Versailles and declared "I am the state"	6
304357665	Descartes	Established the importance of a skeptical review of all received wisdom, arguing that human reason could develop laws explaining the workings of nature	7
304357667	Smith	Scottish philosopher, and author of Wealth of Nations, who argued that government should avoid regulation of the economy in favor of market forces	8
304357669	Kepler	Although from a poor family, he resolved basic issues of planetary motion by using the work of Copernicus and his own observations	9
304357671	Newton	His Principia Mathematica, which set forth the basic principles of all motion (including the forces of gravity), was the capstone of the Scientific Revolution	10
304357673	Locke	English thinker who argued that people could learn everything they needed to know through their senses and reason; faith was irrelevent	11