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Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince - advises rulers that the acquisition and effective use of power may necessitate unethical methods
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Erasmus
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In Praise of Folly. The foremost Renaissance scholar of northern Europe. Paved the way for the Reformation.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies. (The sun orbits the earth)
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Condorcet
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Spirit of Laws
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Montaigne
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French. The originator of the modern essay. Wrote about prominent personalities and ideas of his age
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Rene Descartes
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French. Concluded that everything was open to doubt except conscious experience and the existence as a necessary condition of "I think, therefore I am"
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Pascal
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Founded the theory of probabilities. Fluid at rest is transmitted equally in all directions
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Thomas Hobbes
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The Leviathan
Believed that human action was motivated entirely by selfish concerns. |
