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12 Cards in this Set
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Francis Bacon
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Inductive or experimental method
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Rene Descartes
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"Discourse on Method," cogito ergo sum, reconcile religion with science
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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heliocentric universe
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Johannes Kepler
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discovered three laws of planetary motion and proved that the orbits of planets are ellipses
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Galileo
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Proved Earth was not center of the universe
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Isaac Newton
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"Laws of Motion," developed calculus to measure/predict, explained laws of universal gravitation
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Montesquieu
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"The Spirit of the Laws," checks and balances, "Persian Letters"
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Voltaire
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"Candide," opposed censorship/bigotry/organized religion
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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British writer and early feminist, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
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Thomas Hobbes
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"life is nasty, brutish, and short", survival, only one religion for unity, absolute monarchy
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John Locke
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tabula rasa or blank slate, "all humans endowed life liberty and property," religious toleration, representative government
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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people inherently unequal in ability, state of nature is noble, savages, state enacts general will of the people, property bad, dictatorship
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