1. Scientific revolution & enlightenment Test review
WORLD HISTORY STUDIES

2. Contributing factors
Scientific revolution spurred a thought of direct observation versus previous belief
Led to a rise of uncertainty about the universe
New theories on astronomy
Restricted power of the monarchy
Instead of automatic guilt and punishment, trials were now granted
Suffrage – right to vote; spurred universal education for better-educated voters
Rationalism – reason is the main source of knowledge

3. Thinkers…
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu were all philosophers
Ideas were basis for American Government
Enlightenment spurred reasoning, natural law and scientific thinking
Rousseau – social contract stating society agrees to be governed at will
Joseph II pursued truly radical changes based on Enlightenment;
Descartes – started from scratch because he doubted what he learned

4. All the single ladies… Marie Curie – greatly contributed to medicine
Mary Wollstonecraft – believed women had reason like men
Female scientists had to publish their work anonymously

5. SCIENCE!
Heliocentric – belief that the sun is the center of the universe (proposed by Copernicus, later supported by Galileo)
Voltaire – believed the universe was like a clock
Isaac Newton – laws of motion