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| This is the form of chemistry practiced during the renaissance concerning the use of magic and potions to make a common substance into a very valuable ore such as gold. |
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| He was a famous organist and composer during the scientific revolution. He was born in Germany in 1685 and spent his whole life there directing the music at the church of Saint Thomas. He also composed the mass in B minor and numerous other works which made him one of the greatest composers in history |
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| He was an English philosopher and scientist in 1561. He disproved of the Aristotlian system. |
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| Cesar, Marquis of Beccaria |
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| This person was a philosopher and politician from 1738 to 1794. He published a treatise entitled "On crimes and Punishement" which challenged the penalties for people's crimes. |
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| He was a philosopher, chemist, physisist, and inventor who lived from 1627 through 1691. He was the first scientist to use a controlled expiriment and also created Boyle's law on the behavior of gasses. |
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| Catherine the Great (Catherine the II) |
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| She was the emperess of Russia from 1762 to 1796 who recognized the principal of equality among everyone in the eyes of the law. Soon, however, she figured that it was the nobles who were keeping her up so she tookk stronger measures against peasants and became a great ruler because of her territorial expansion. |
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| He was a German mathematician, philosopher , and astronomer during the 17th century. He was known for his laws of planetary motion which proved the fact that the sun is the center of the universe and that the planets go in eliptical orbits. |
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| This describes the enviornment in which exchanges of money take place between private parties. These exchanges are free from the state. In 1776 Adam Smith published "The wealth of Nations" which stated that the government shouldn't interfere in economic matters. |
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| He was one of the two people who influenced the enlightenment the most. He suggested that people are molded by the experiences they went through. He proposed that if people were brought into the world the right way, then the ideal society could be created. |
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| She was emperess of Austria from 1740 to 1780. She was not open to the philosophes, but she worked hard to help out the surfs. She also worked to centralize the power and add more strength to the country of Austria which madde her a good emperess. |
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| This describes the people of Sapin who were of mixed European and Native American decent. These people didn't have as many rites as the Europeans yet more rights than "Indios" or "Negros". |
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| Charles- Lois de Secondat, barn de La Brede et de Montesquieu (Montesquieu) |
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| This person was a French political philosopher who came from the nobility in the 18th century. He identified the three basic kinds of Government: 1. republic 2.despotism 3.monarchies. He also saw England's government as having three branches: 1.executive 2.legislative 3.judicial, which is called the separation of powers. |
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| A person with one black and one white person as their parents or white and black people in their ancestry. When the Europeans came to America and had Africans work on their farms, whites and blacks came in contact with eachother making mulattoes. |
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| He was a 17th and 18th century physician, mathematician, astronomer, phylosopher, alchemist, and theologist who is best known for his discoveries in optics and gravity. In his first book, "Principia", he explained, mathematicaly, his law of gravitation. He also described the universe as a machine which worked and was governed by laws. |
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