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Proved nothing about the universe but got people to start thinking and started the scientific revolution

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copernicus

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Said “Cogito, ergo sum”

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Descartes

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Created Calculus independent of newton

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Leibniz

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Proved the heliocentric theory through analysis of years of data and use of math

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Kepler

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Jewish scientist who said that by studying science, one understands how God works

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Spinoza

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Used the scientific mentor to explain why absolutism is needed to run a government

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Hobbes

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Believed in the geocentric theory of the universe, but compiled a large amount of data from years of observations

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Brahe

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Explained how blood flowed in the body

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Harvey

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Wrote Principe Mathemetica

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Newton

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Wrote the Structure of the human body

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vesalius

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Created the scientific method and inductive reasoning

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bacon

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wrote essay of human understanding and treatises of civil goverment

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locke

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wrote leviathan

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hobbes

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created deductive reasoning, analytical geometry, and cartesian dualism

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descartes

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believed the government is there to protect the human rights of its citizens

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Locke

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believed that objects were in a state of motion until a force stops them

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Newton

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Created the laws of gravity

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newton

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Wrote Starry Messenger

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Galileo

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a woman making significant contribution to scientific literature

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Cavendish

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theorized one who reasons could create a “wager” for the face that god exists

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Pascal

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wrote on the revolutions of heavenly spheres

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copernicus

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put on trial by the roman catholic church for his discoveries

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galileo

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used the scientific method to explain that a government’s job is to protect the citizens human rights

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locke

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father of chemistry who identified the name oxygen, hydrogen, and created a list of known elements

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lavoisier

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wrote ethics, where he disagreed with descartes about the separation of the mind and matter and also the separation of god and matter
Spinoza
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Obtained a lot of data to help his argument in supporting the geocentric theory, but his data ended up proving the heliocentric theory
brahe
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German woman astronomer whose discoveries included finding a comet, but wasn't allowed into the Berlin Science Academy
Winklemann
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Was the first ti state that planets move in elliptical paths, not perfect circles
Kepler
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Wrote Discourse of methods concerning his though process
descartes
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Had negative views about people and society and called for absolutism
Hobbes
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said to reject intellectual authority except conviction of his own reason
descartes
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wrote on anatomical procedures and on the fabric of the human body
vesalius
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wrote on the motion of the heart and the blood
harvey
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Made a system of naming the elements and chemical composition
lavosier
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favored atoms over medical matter
boyle
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wrote observations upon experimental philosophy (chemistry woman)
cavendish
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discovered that mercury and venus revolve around the sun
brahe
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wrote the new astronomy and had the first astronomic model that portrayed correct motion
Kepler
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wrote starry messenger
galileo
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said there was mathematical regularity in all of nature
galileo
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wrote letters on sunspots
galileo
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Wrote advancement of learning novum organum new atlantis
bacon
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father of empiricism and experimentation in science
bacon
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wrote pénseis
pascal
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argued that humans need both reason and religion
pascal
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wrote rational and historical accounts of biblical events that disturbed christians and jews
spinoza
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found a more elegant solution to keplers problems
cunitz
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wrote edipe
voltaire
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wrote on the letters on the english
voltaire
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wrote treatise on toleration
voltaire
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applied scientific method to government to find natural laws
montesquieu
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kants definition of the enlightenment
mans leaving his self caused immaturity
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said that people rushed into government to provide private property and government is a necessary evil
rousseau
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wrote social contract
rousseau
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wrote vindication of the rights of women
wollstoncraft
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wrote treatise on human nature
hume
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created the social sciences by using knowledge of human nature
hume
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stated that humans have knowledge only of the things they experience
voltaire
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said the enlightenment corrupted human nature
rousseau
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expanding literate public and growing influence of secular printed materials created a social force called
public opinion
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rousseau argued in his novel Emile that education
must combine heart and mind, sentiment and reason
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published history of the russian empire under peter the great (strong monarchist)
voltaire
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when does the scientific revolution start
1500
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inductive reasoning (hypothesis through observation) and empiricism
bacon
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I think, therefor I am
descartes
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who believed in tabula rasa
john locke
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disagrees with tabula rasa and believes learning is spontaneous and natural but children can be corrupted easily by societies
rousseau
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who fought in the war of austrian succession
prussia plus france vs austria plus england
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treaty of aix la-chapelle
prussia gets silesia but thats it, ends war of austrian succession
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diplomatic revolution
prussia with england now and austria is with france
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European countries in the 7 years wars
prussia and england vs austria, france, russia, and sweden
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treaty of hubertusburg
status quo before the war in europe of the 7 years war
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treaty of paris 1763
england won north american part of the 7 years war
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treaty of paris of 1783
american colonies are now free
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partitioning of poland
austria and prussia and russia all wanted pollards land

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