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Descartes
French philosopher and mathematician who advanced the use of deductive reasoning to discover truth
Diderot
French Philosopher who compiled the Encyclopedia, an attempt at a complete survey of all intellectual knowledge in eighteenth century Europe. The Encyclopedia took twenty five years to produce and spread Enlightenment thought Europe and America
Galileo
Italian Renaissance mathematician and astronomer whose work disproved the geocentric theory, which held hat the earth was the cener of the solar system. Heliocentric theory and was part of the Linceans. Work was not appreciated by the church, forced to recant views
Henry VIII
Initially a prominent Catholic during the Reformation, but broke with the pope and established the Church of England in order to obtain a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon. Defenso Fidei