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| The mercury thermometer and the Fahrenheit temperature system, which had mroe range. |
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| Wealth of Nations, coming up with law of supply and demand |
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| Extreme atheist, wrote system of nature, denying god's existence and human soul |
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| Came up with gravity and invented Calculus to prove it. |
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| Formalized the empirical method of Brahe and Galileo into inductive reasoning known as empiricism |
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| Came up with three laws of planetary observation |
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| Last great classical astronomer. Believed in geocentric universe, tried to smooth out the irregularities of the orbits |
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| Prooved the heliocentric theory, discovered moons of jupiter and observed the craters of the moosn |
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| Created temperature system based on water |
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| First astronomer to compile systme of universe based on heliocentric theory |
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| Discovered analytical geometry, developed Cartesian dualism, "Doubt everthing that is systematically doubtable'A |
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| Claimed life is a bundle of impression |
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| Explained circulation of blood in the body. |
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| first person to see bacteria |
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| Wrote common sense, ignited the American revolution |
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| Prooved water is not an element |
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| Proponent for freedom of thought reason and toleration. Empirical knowledge, there are fundamental truths in the world. Deist, believing that god is a clock maker, he made perfect laws that we must figure out. |
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| Wrote Second treatise of civil government when humans are born their minds are tabula rasa, blank slate. Rights of life liberty and property. |
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| Said that men were good, but society makes people bad Reason is the cure. Wrote Social Contract |
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| Wrote The Spirit of the Laws, advocating seperation of powers. Wrote Persian letters to satirize european society |
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| Wrote Gulliver's Travels, criticized science. |
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| French actor who's comedies ridiculed the false airs of the newly rich |
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| HIstorian who wrote the Rise and Fall of the Roman empire. |
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| German philosopher who promoted freedom of the press |
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| nine stages of life, tenth is death (killed himself) |
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| Wrote the declaration of independence using the ideas of E thinkers |
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| Humans have some righs but not many. They have no capacity for self government. Said life and the state of nature was poor nastily, brutish and short |
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| Historical and critical dictionary. Evaluated the monarchy and he wrote in a language common people could understand |
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| Tried to make science more entertaining. Wrote conversaitions on the plurallity of the world. |
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| Classified people as truly englighted public and the blind and noisy multitude. The public-enlightened people. |
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| Electricity, stove, fire departments, public libraries, etc. |
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