The Enlightenment and Revolutions Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• smith : adam ****** published his most famous work, "the wealth of nations," in 1776.
• galileo : the catholic church ordered him to abandon the copernican idea, which threatened the church's entire conception of the universe.
• spheres : in the ptolemaic system, the universe is seen as a series of concentric ******-- one inside the other
• heaven : beyond the tenth sphere in the ptolemaic system is ******, where god resides.
• war : the philosophers condemned ****** as a foolish waste of life and resources.
• aristotle : medieval scientists relied on ancient authorities such as ****** for their scientific knowledge.
• navigation : mathematics was seen as the key to ******, military science, and geography.
• salons : the elegant drawing rooms of the wealthy upper class's great urban houses.
• gravity : newton's law that states, in mathematical terms, that every object in the universe is attracted to every other object by a force called ******.
• pascal : the french scientist blaise ****** experimented with how liquids behaved under pressure.
• geocentric : earth-centered; a system of planetary motion in which the sun, moon, and other planets revolved around the earth.
• balthazar : one of the greatest architects of the 18th-century was ****** neumann.
• heliocentric : sun-centered; the system of the universe in which the earth and planets revolve around the sun.
• rationalism : descartes is known as the father of modern ******.
• think : descartes famously said, "i ******, therefore i am."
• newton : sir isaac ****** was an english mathematician who was a key figure in the scientific revolution.
• matter : descartes believed that mind and ****** were completely separate.
• voltaire : the greatest figure of the enlightenment was francois-marie arouet, known simply as ******.
• cavendish : she published under her own name at a time when many female writers had to publish anonymously.