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25 Cards in this Set
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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-Astronomer
-Introduced heliocentric view of the universe -He waited before he died before he published his book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres -Afraid he'd get prosecuted by the church |
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Tycho Brahe
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-Built the most sophisticated observatory of his day
-Strongly opposed Copernicus |
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Johannes Kepler
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Formed three laws of planetary motion:
-Planet orbit is elliptical -Planets do not move at the same speed -The time it takes to orbit the sun relates to its distance from the sun Those ideas were published in his book: On the Motion of Mars. |
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Galileo
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-Opposed Aristotle and Ptolemy
-said that objects hit the ground at the same time if dropped from the same height -He made an improved telescope -He discovered Jupiter's four moons -Wrote Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World |
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Isaac Newton
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-Invented Calculus
-Came up with gravity Created three laws of motion: -Everything has inertia -Force= mass * acceleration -Every action has an equal and opposite reaction -Said that science and faith are compatible -Wrote Principia Mathematica |
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Miguel de Cervantes
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-Wrote Don Quixote
*Explained how chivalry and knighthood are dead, basically said that medieval culture is gone |
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Shakespeare
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-playwright
-one of the greatest english writers |
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John Milton
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-Poet, second best writer next to Shakespeare
-Wrote Paradise Lost (on rebellion of Adam and Eve) -Wrote Paradise Regained |
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John Bunyan
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-lived most of his life in jail
-Wrote Pilgrim's Progress *book on Puritan piety |
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Francis Bacon
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-Politician and writer
-"Knowledge is Power" -Wrote The Advancement of Learning *explained the empirical formula (scientific) |
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Renee Descartes
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"I think therefore I am."
-Wrote Discourses on Method *book on analytical geometry |
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Spinoza
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Wrote Ethics which explained Pantheism
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John Locke
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Created the rights of life, liberty, and property.
-Famous work was Two Treatises on Government which explained that government should give and utilize these rights |
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Samuel Johnson
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Wrote the first English Dictionary
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Francois Marie Arquet-Voltaire
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Wrote Candide
*took three days, satire of French Government and Society |
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Danis Diderot
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-Came up with 1st Encyclopedia
-Volume 1 released in 1751 -Volume 28 released 19 yrs. later |
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Edward Gibbon
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-Wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Cesare Beccaria
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Wrote On Crimes and Punishments
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Francois Quesnay
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Led Physiocrats and believe gov't. should remove all restrains on trade.
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Adam Smith
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Wrote The Wealth of Nations
*About supply-and-demand |
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Montesquieu
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Wrote The Spirit of Laws. Created blueprint for US gov.
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Rousseau
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Wrote Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences
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Frederick the Great
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King of Prussia
-great tactician -Enlighted Monarch -called himself "First Servant of the state" |
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Joseph II
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-Abolished serfdom and death penalty
-Abolish Robot |
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Catherine the Great
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-Empress of Russia
-Overthrew husband and let him die in prison -Sponsored Philsophes and tried to westernize Russia -Supported Serfs until they had a rebellion against her |
