Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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dutchman who created the microscope

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Denis Diderot

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Frenchman who completed 35 volume Encyclopedia, church tried to burn it

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Adam Smith

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English wrote textbook on economy=Wealth of Nations
1.protection
2.keep order
3.postal system

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Montesquieu

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came up with what he thought to be perfect government=3 branches: legislative, executive, and judicial

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Rene Descartes

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french philosopher who invented analytic geomety; "I think therefore i am"

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miscegenation

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marriage/relationships with those of a diff. race

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scientific method

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1. problem
2.hypothesis
3.experiment
4.observations
5.conclusions

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Polish astronomer who came up with the idea of a heliocentric universe, and kept his work to himself until he died which friends published it

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Tycho Branche

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Danish astronomer in late 1500s who set up an observatory to study heavenly bodies and accumulated much data on planetary movements

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Johannes Kepler

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German astronomer and mathematician who used Branche's data with goal of providing mathematical proof for Copernicus's hypothesis; came up with the theory of elipses

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Galileo Calilie

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Italian mathematician who faced troubles from church b/c he discovered that not all heavenly bodies rotate around earth with his telescope. forced to recant his ideas.

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Francis Bacon

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English philosopher who developed the scientific method

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Isaac Newton

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laws of motion:1. body at rest tends to stay at rest. 2. for every action there is an oposite and equal reaction 3. Any change in motion is proportional to force acting upon its speed and direction
Laws of Gravity: 1.force of gravity is proportional to mass and distance 2. accelaration
3.force of attaction b/w 2 things

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Andres Vesalius

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made it clear that Galen dissected apes and animals; made his own anatomy book and it was used until 1919

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Galen

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(400 B.C.) dissection animals and made estimates on what human body looks like and made his own anatomy book which was used until 1543