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The conception or view  that the universe is one huge, regulated, and uniform device that operated according to natural laws in absolute time, space, and motion 

In 1965, shortly after the Surgeon General’s Report, warning notices were required on all cigarette packages sold in the U.S. to notify consumers that “Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health.”

In the cottage industry, where did the spinners and weavers perform their work?

Galileo is credited with the invention of calculus.

In the context of direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising, which of the following is an example of “disease mongering?”

According to Locke, everyone is born with a tabula rosa.  Tabula rosa means a

In class we have looked at a lot of different kinds of ads from the past century.  For example, we watched several TV commercials from the recent Subaru ad campaigns. Many recent ads like these are fundamentally different than ads from the early 1900’s because _____.

Galileo’s idea that a body in motion continues in motion unless deflected by an external force is called the principle of

Which man is considered as having been the greatest figure of Enlightenment?

According to Rousseau, the source of inequality and the chief cause of crimes was