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Chapter 5 Reason Lucak
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9th Grade
10/08/2013

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scientific revolution
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the new way of thinking that emerged in the mid-1500s
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Galileo
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posed theories that brought him into direct conflict with the church.
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Locke
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argued that people had a right to overthrow a government that does not protect their natural rights
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Rousseau
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wrote "Man is born free but everywhere is in chains"
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Antoine- Laurent Lavoisier
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Invented the first periodic table
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Copernicus
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Published a book supporting the heliocentric theory
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scientific method
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new approach allowed scholars to gain new scientific knowledge
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Hobbes
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wrote that without government, people's love were "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"
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the Encyclopedia
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written by Denis Diderot in order to promote knowledge
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Austria
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country were the Enlightenment reforms of Emperor Joseph II opposed by the church and the nobility
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John Locke
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Who wrote "Two Treatises on Government"
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Baron De Montesquieu
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Believed that government power was best divided among seperate branches
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Newton
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Developed Calculus
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Kepler
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all planets travel at uniform speed
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Andreas Vesalius
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achieved his breakthrough discoveries by illegally dissecting human bodies
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Principia
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Newton's theories about the law of gravity where published here
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Voltaire
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instead of returning to the Bastilee this person went into exile in England
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Thomas Hobbes
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argued that the best form of government was an absolute monarchy
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Diderot
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imprisoned for the publication of the Encyclopedia
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Galileo
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was forced to recant many of his ideas by the Catholic Church
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John Wesley
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Did not make any discoveries in anatomy
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Newton
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the below average Cambridge student who eventually developed groundbreaking theories in physics
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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One opponent of the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason
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Lavoisiers
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The husband and wife team that contributed to the understanding of oxygen
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