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Denis Diderot
1713-1784 he led the multinational team that produced the Encyclopedia. Most practical thinker, attacked fedual aristocracy, emphasised reason science over faith
The most practical thinker in the Enlightenment
Francisco Pizarro
1475-1541 Spanish conquistador who sailed with Cortes in search of gold, he conquered the Peruvian highlands in 1532-1533
He was just like Cortes
Scientific Revolution
Working Definition: By tradition, the "Scientific Revolution" refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700; beginning with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, it ended with Isaac Newton (1642-1727), who proposed universal laws and a Mechanical Universe.
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