IDENTIFICATIONS--Part A
Below are a number of items with which you should be familiar after reading Chapter 24. Enter your answer in the blank. Note: You must enter NUMERIC VALUES, then click your mouse anywhere outside of the input box to check your answer.
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IDENTIFICATIONS
Explain the significance of the following terms: |
1. Cartesianism
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2. Écrasez-l'infâme
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3. philosophes
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4. "laissez-faire"
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6. Palladian revival
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7. Leyden Jar
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8. Augustans
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9. general will
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WHO WAS I?
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1. This philosopher wrote "I think, therefore I am".
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2. The principle of the Novum Organum, or new instrument was developed by this man.
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3. The first man to observe and describe the circulation of blood.
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4. Wrote Essay on Man.
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5. Wrote Outline of the Progress of the Human Mind.
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6. Wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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7. The author who created "Nathan the Wise", a hero modeled after the real-life Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
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8. His On Crime and Punishments taught that criminals should be punished only as a means of deterring other crimes.
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9. He discovered the Law of the Conservation of Mass.
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10. He developed the classification system for plants and animals which divided them into classes, genera, and species, etc.
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11. Wrote Tartuffe, a play which satirized the "religious hypocrisy" he despised.
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12. His paintings are a prime example of the Rococo style.
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13. Wrote the classic English novel Tom Jones.
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14. Credited with the invention of opera as a musical form.
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15. This famous musician composed The Magic Flute.
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