Study Guide: Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

People and Concepts

Montaigne

Francis Bacon

Rene Descartes

Skepticism  

Inductive reasoning

Deductive reasoning

Empiricism

Cartesian dualism

Galileo

Copernicus

Kepler

Isaac Newton

Evidence

Gregorian calendar

Baruch de Spinoza

Thomas Hobbes

State of nature

John Locke

Inalienable rights

Natural law

Positive law

Hugo Grotius  

International law  

Salons

Philosophes

Freemasons

Scientific academies

Pierre Bayle

John Toland

David Hume

Voltaire

Religious tolerance

Baron de Montesquieu

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Consent of the governed

General will

Separation of powers

Constitutional monarchy

Humanitarianism

Cesare Beccaria

Abolitionism

Human rights

Adam Smith

Laissez faire

Denis Diderot’s Encyclopedia (1751)

Enlightened despot 

Seven Years war 

Frederick II 

Louis XV 

Maria Theresa