The correct answers are A) Rene Descartes developed the Scientific Method and believed that ideas should be backed up with facts. C) John Locke stated that the government exists to protect people’s natural rights which contradicted the idea of the divine right of Kings. E) Copernicus came up with the idea that the sun was the center of the universe and Galileo confirmed his findings which went against the Catholic Church. F) Montesquieu promoted the idea of separation of powers into three branches of government which contradicted absolute monarchy.
Those were examples of how these institutions were impacted by the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.
During the Age of Reason or Enlightenment, philosophers, scientists, and thinkers defied the world with new ideas, thoughts, and invasions that revolutionized the world at that moment and influenced many other new ideas years later in other countries. From 1685 to 1815, these innovative people challenged the formal authority of the time and were decided to improve human conditions through the use of the reason and new political structures.
