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William Harvey
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English physician who came up with blood circulation
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William Penn
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started colony in Pennsylvania; quaker (pacifist)
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empiricist
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one who believes things based on reason, scientific method, and logic
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Robert Hooke
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English scientist who discoveres the cell
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Robert Boyle
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Irish man who came up with the idea that element cannot be broken down and attacked theory of the four elements
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Joseph Priestly
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English chemist and clergyman who conducted experiments with air and discovered existence of Oxygen
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Antoine and Marie Lavoisier
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contributed more to knoweldge of Oxygen and discovered combustion, and carbonation
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Thomas Hobbes
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English philosopher used idea of natural law to argue that monarchy=best form of government
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John Locke
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English philosopher used same idea of natural law to argue limited government=best form and that people had natural rights (life, liberty, and property) and people can have obligation to change form of government
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Hugo Grotius
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Dutch Jurist who called for international code based on natural law; beleieved one body of rules could reduce dealings of governments to a system of reason and order
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Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper
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secretary of john Locke
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Madame de Pompadour
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most celebrated of wealthiest influential women who ran many of popular salons and won charm of many philosophes
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Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
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French author and diest wrote Candide, his most celebrated satire, challenged the notion that everything that happens is for the best in "the best of all possible worlds"
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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favored equal education for both sexes and that both sexes can equally contribute to society
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Federick II
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ruler of Prussia, most famous enlightened despots and gets honored Federick the "geat"
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