A History of Western Society: Printed Page 538

A History of Western Society, Value Edition: Printed Page 549

REVIEW and EXPLORE

Identify Key Terms

Identify and explain the significance of each item below.

natural philosophy (p. 504)

Copernican hypothesis (p. 506)

experimental method (p. 508)

law of inertia (p. 508)

law of universal gravitation (p. 510)

empiricism (p. 511)

Cartesian dualism (p. 512)

Enlightenment (p. 516)

rationalism (p. 516)

philosophes (p. 517)

reading revolution (p. 522)

salon (p. 522)

rococo (p. 524)

public sphere (p. 524)

enlightened absolutism (p. 529)

cameralism (p. 530)

Haskalah (p. 535)