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27 Cards in this Set
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Diderot
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He was significant because he edited the huge encyclopedia and he used to be a religious skeptical writer
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Bayle
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A huge role in skepticism, he published the historical dictionary, concluded nothing can ever be known beyond all doubt
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Kepler
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He took Brahe's information and statistics and deciphered them and went way beyond anything Brahe did
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Galileo
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One of his most significant finds was the law of inertia which stated that objects will move forever unless stopped by an outside force
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Bacon
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Francis Bacon was significant because he came up with the idea that you must go out into the world and collect information
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Descartes
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He found that geometric shapes and figures could be expressed algebraically
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D'Holbach
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He determined that humans were machines whose minds were very complex and made to make the person think they had a free will
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Newton
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He had the idea of universal gravitation and that everybody and everything in the universe is pulled together by gravity
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Montesquieu
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Wrote the Persian Letters and the Spirit of Laws
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Voltaire
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Mixed the glorification of science and reason with an appeal for better individuals and institutions
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Copernicus
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He was significant because he disproved Aristotle's idea of the universe
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Brahe
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He was significant because he gathered loads of information about the stars, but was unable to organize it
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Catherine the Great
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Was brought to rule and was easily one of the most loved rulers of her day in Russia
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Frederick the Great
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Frederick of Prussia had to go to war to escape dismemberment
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Maria Theresa
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Was the mother of Joseph II and she influenced him mainly in the state of building work
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Louis XIV
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He was significant because he started to rule at age five and called himself Sun King
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Joseph II
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He was a revolutionary emperor. He made the church produce better citizens, promoted religious toleration, and abolished serfdom
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On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres
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By Copernicus: The sun was at the center of the universe and everything revolved around it
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Two New Sciences
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By Galileo: Showed how the Law of Inertia worked and how things always wanted to be moving
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Principia
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By Newton: Shared how the Law of Universal Gravitation pulls everyone and everything together
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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds of 1686
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By Fontenelle: Shows how error is giving way to truth and that each star could be another world
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Historical and Critical Dictionary
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By Bayle: This is critically explained in the religious beliefs and persecutions of the past, showed how human beliefs are mistaken
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The Spirit of the Laws
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By Montesquieu: A complete study of republics, monarchs, and despotism
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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By Locke: Demonstrated how humans learn to create, rejecting views of desecrates
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Philosophical Dictionary
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By Voltaire: Published anonymously, contained a large variety of essays
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Encyclopedia: The Rational Dictionary of the Sciences, the Arts, and the Crafts
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By Diderot: Brought knowledge to the educated people of Europe and made it possible for people to do their own research
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The Social Contract
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By Rousseau: General Will is sacred and absolute
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