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Mary Wollstonecraft
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argued that women, like men need education to become virtual and useful. Also urged women...
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Copernicus
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heliocentric theory-believed the stars, earth, and planets revolved around sun.
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Kepler
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Assistant to Brahe. Calculations supported heliocentric theory, but that planets revolve in...
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Locke
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contributed to DOI. People are responsible and will cooperate with each other. rulers remain...
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Montesquieu
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spirit of the laws. admired english government. America's founding father's read ideas. Seperation...
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Newton
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english mathmetician. mathmatical proofs. invented calculus. law of gravity-force...
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Cathering the great
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Ruler over Russia. brought French thinkers to Russian court. all glitz and no real reform.
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Thomas Hobbes
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The leviathan. believed people were cruel in natural state. once in contract, you...
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Galileo
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Italian who used telescope to observeplanets and stars. Moon had rough suface. jupiter...
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Tycho Brahe
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danish astronomer. Compiled astronomical tables.
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Francis Bacon
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english polotician. worked with the approach of empiricism, or expiramental method. ...
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robert boyle
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pioneered us of scientific method in chemistry. in The sceptical chemist he challenged...
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voltaire
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"I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." ...
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rousseau
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social contract. man was good but society corrupted. "noble savage" idea- couldn't...
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Joseph II
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Ruler of Austria, along with maria theresa. limited serfdom, regulated unpaid work, joseph...
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Denis Diderot
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Brought together works of many people(encyclopedia).
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