Question

Galileo Galilei Catherine the Great Joseph Priestley Benjamin Franklin William Harvey Denis Diderot Carolus Least from least to most democratic and a paragraph on why you put them there. This can be done because it is a assessment for school but i don't understand it

Answer 1

I really need help

Answer 2

I'd suggest reading a short bio of each one, and come to your conclusions about whether they are democratic or not. And then prove your point in the paragraph, something like, this guy stood for this, that's why he's democratic, etc.. Sorry, I'm more into math

Answer 3

it is alright

Answer 4

Everyone think it is impossible but it cant be because i have to do it for school

Answer 5

Catherine the Great is one of the least democratic once, since she was the empress, and there usually is no democracy in a monarchy

Answer 6

Then who would be Most democratic

Answer 7

Joseph Priestley pursued scientific investigation while advocating democracy and freedom from religious tyranny

Answer 8

So he's one of the more democratic ones

Answer 9

Galileo Galilei is somewhere in the middle, he was against the church, but he was scared to show it (didn't want to get burned like Copernicus)

Answer 10

Diderot: "Almost preempting the 1780s shift in French thinking from philosophy to politics, the criticism of despotism became a consistent theme of the Encyclopédie and of Diderot’s thinking - he favoured greater emphasis on democracy. His attacks on the political system of France contributed greatly to the causes of the French Revolution:

“The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.” - L'Encyclopédie"

http://www.humanism.org.uk/humanism/humanist-tradition/enlightenment/denis-diderot

Answer 11

So it appears that Diderot was pretty democratic too.

Answer 12

Besides signing the Declaration...just that small detail... ;-)

He also served in the Continental Congress, arguing, debating, and refining many of the founding ideologies. He served as a post-master and opened many of the communication channels in the colonies that helped spread ideas, plans, and philosophies. He operated newspapers and fought hard for freedom of the press. He also published many pamphlets and articles of an anti-British rule nature. He wrote many under aliases, as well. He formed the Junto Society, which was dedicated to self- and civic-improvements in the time of the Founding. He went to England in the 1750's though 1770's, as a Colonial representative of Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. He testified before Parliment in 1765 to get them to repeal the Stamp Act, one of the acts that pushed the colonists to open rebellion. He intercepted and leaked the Hutchinson letters in the Hutchinson Affair which showed that the Governor of Mass. was secretly working for the King while telling the colonists that he was with them for rebellion (another major turning point in rebellion). After he signed the Declaration, he sailed to France as an ambassador for the new US to the Court of King Louis XVI. In part via Franklin's popularity, the government of France signed a Treaty of Alliance with the Americans in 1778 that helped turn the tide against England in the Revolution. Franklin also helped secure loans from France to pay for the revolution. Franklin was on hand to sign the Treaty of Paris in 1783, after the Americans had won the Revolution. After the war he returned to the states where he became President of the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. He served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and signed the Constitution. He wrote against slavery, for business, for liberty, and for the Bill of Rights.

All that said, Franklin (like almost ALL the Founders) did not trust, nor want a democracy. He wanted a Representative Republic.

Franklin doesn't seem to be democratic.

Answer 13

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081028193945AAvsJnQ

Answer 14

Okay so how would i list them
Joseph Priestley ,Denis Diderot ,Galileo Galilei, Benjamin Franklin, William Harvey Carolus Catherine the Great---like that or what about Benjamen he was democratic to right and idk about William or Carolous

Answer 15

oseph Priestley ,Denis Diderot ,Galileo Galileo, , William Harvey Carolus Benjamin Franklin Catherine the Great-Like that

Answer 16

Hang on, do we know who Harvey is?

Answer 17

No

Answer 18

They want least to most democratic, so:
Catherine The Great, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo Galilei, Denis Diderot, Joseph Priestley.. and we have to shove Harvey in there somewhere.

Answer 19

http://go.flvs.net/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_6420_1%26url%3D

Answer 20

Guests are not allowed to go to this class.

Answer 21

Harvey was a physician in 1600s England

Answer 22

I think he'd be somewhere after galileo

Answer 23

http://www.biography.com/

Answer 24

His medicine practice was unconventional which caused him to lose patients according to this link:
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/library/history/harvey.html
but he stuck to it..

Answer 25

Harvey was a journalist

Answer 26

Which harvey are we talking about?

Answer 27

william harvey

Answer 28

Yes He did study medicine like you said soo I am guessing He was not democratic at all

Answer 29

I'm guessing he'd be less democratic than galilei
Catherine The Great, Benjamin Franklin, William Harvey, Galileo Galilei, Denis Diderot, Joseph Priestley

Answer 30

Not as against democracy is franklin though

Answer 31

well, about his books: "He is credited with being the first man to correctly describe the human blood circulation system. The discovery and description of the blood circulation system was a landmark in medical history; it has even been described, by historian K. F. Russell, as the "greatest single contribution to anatomy and medicine in any century".

He also proved " his hypothesis scientifically using empirical observations and reasoning. "

Answer 32

So how should it go

Answer 33

Okay guys
"Harvey's conservatism extended to his political opinions too. In the debates that raged during the Seventeenth Century over religious tolerance and the respective roles of parliament and monarch in running the country, Harvey came down firmly on the side of the king."

Answer 34

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/june2007.html

Answer 35

Ohhh so he's before franklin

Answer 36

Catherine The Great, William Harvey, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo Galilei, Denis Diderot, Joseph Priestley

Answer 37

yeah

Answer 38

i think we're done guys :D

Answer 39

Teamwork! Hi FIVE!

Answer 40

Thanks <3 Now I have to explain why i put them there

Answer 41

Well you got the sources here in this thread

Answer 42

In short:
Catherine the great - empress, so she's against democracy
Harvey - "Harvey's conservatism extended to his political opinions too. In the debates that raged during the Seventeenth Century over religious tolerance and the respective roles of parliament and monarch in running the country, Harvey came down firmly on the side of the king.", so he's next http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/june2007.html
Benjamin Franklin:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081028193945AAvsJnQ
Galileo Galilei - well u know his story with the church
Denis Diderot - favored greater emphasis on democracy: http://www.humanism.org.uk/humanism/humanist-tradition/enlightenment/denis-diderot
Joseph Priestley - Joseph Priestley pursued scientific investigation while advocating democracy and freedom from religious tyranny (idk where that came from)

Answer 43

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Answer 44

OMFG I'll kill you!

Answer 45

I will make a new thread but she will still Give me credit

Answer 46

LOL

Answer 47

So I get extras points on the assignment so it did count for something

Answer 48

I want to kill her

Answer 49

OMG those people are so easy lol

Answer 50

She is a idiot

Answer 51

omg!

Answer 52

I am sorry

Answer 53

lol dw about it, just post the new thread

Answer 54

no problem emran :DD

Answer 55

oKay i will make a new thread i am closing this one