AP Euro: People and Works
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Bernard de Fontanelle | Conversation on the Plurality of Worlds |
| John Locke | Two Treatises on Civil Government (said people are born into perfect freedom and cede some rights for a govt's protection) and Essay on Human Understanding (tabula rasa) |
| Montesqueiu | Spirit of Laws (3 part govt) and Persian Letters (criticized Europe's culture) |
| Voltaire | deist who wrote Treatise On Toleration; "I don't agree with a word you say but I'll die for your right to say it" |
| Frederick the Great | Enlightened monarch who abolished torture and allowed promotion based on merit |
| Catherine the Great | Enlightened monarch who allowed publishing of Diderot's Encyclopedia, and gave serfs rights |
| Diderot | The Encyclopedia (summary of philosophical knowledge of the time) |
| Joseph II of Austria | Enlightened monarch who created Toleration Act, tried to help peasants |
| Baron D'Holbach | atheist who wrote "System of Nature" |
| David Hume | Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (almost-atheist, skeptical Enlightenment ideas) |
| Immanuel Kant | "What Is Enlightenment?" (its just questioning things and thinking); forerunner of Romanticism |
| Madame du Chalet | translated Principia Mathematica into French for Voltaire (and probably slept with him) |
| Isaac Newton | "Principia Mathematica"; invented calculus to explain gravity |
| Descarte | wrote "Discourse on Method" about cartesianism, which rejects anything that cannot be proven (I think, therefore I am) |
| Paracelsus | physician who said that diseases had specific causes and cures, and were not from "an imbalance of humors" |
| Kepler | student of Brahe; discovered that planets have elyptically shaped orbits |
| Copernicus | published "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres" on his deathbed; said that the planets orbited the sun |
| Bacon | came up with idea of Empiricism (recording experiments so they could be repeated and reproved) |
| Galileo | "Dialogue on Two Chief Systems" said that all planets orbited sun; he was led before the Inquisition, but recanted and was put under house arrest til he died |
| Hobbes | wrote "Leviathon", believed that people are naturally violent brutes and need a strong monarch to stop the chaos |
| Jethro Tull | invented the seed drill and suggested horses for plows, changing agriculture in Holland |
| Harvey | scientist who discovered/studied the circulatory system |
| Erasmus | In Praise of Folly (1st humanist?) |
| Dante | Divine Comedy |
| Machiavelli | The Prince (1513) |
| James I of England | The Trew Law of Free Monarchies |
| Marsiglio of Padua | Defensor Pacis (govt is more important than church) |
| politiques | people who did not think religion was worth dying for and the state came before the church |
| Micheal d'Montaigne | wrote the first essay and was the first skeptic |
| John Milton | wrote "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates" which said that rulers were accountable to the people |
| Vesalius | first set of modern anatomical drawings |
| Robert Boyle | founded chemistry |
| Boris Pasternak | Russian who wrote Dr. Zhivago, which critisized the USSR |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | wrote Vindication on the Rights of Women in 1792 |
| Thomas Paine | said, in The Rights of Man, in 1791, that if a government is not taking care of and fairly representing its people, they have a right to overthrow it |
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