Age of Reason

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood (6)
  2. 6. A legislative assembly in certain countries (10)
  3. 7. A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right (9)
  4. 9. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (5)
  5. 10. English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (14)
  6. 12. The doctrine that kings derive their ___ to rule directly from God and are not accountable (11)
  7. 13. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars (7)
  8. 14. A city in north central France near Paris (10)
  9. 15. A rational motive for a belief or action (6)

Down

  1. 1. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (8)
  2. 2. Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (10)
  3. 3. Having the sun as the center (12)
  4. 5. French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland (8)
  5. 8. The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation (13)
  6. 11. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial (11)