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15 Cards in this Set
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Copernicus (Polish) |
Heliocentric Theory: Where everything rotates around the Earth |
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Aristotle (Greek) Ptolemy (Greek) |
Geocentric Theory: Earth is the orbital center of all celestial bodies |
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Galileo (Italian) |
Wrote Starry Messenger: Shatterd Aristotle theory that the moon and sun where made of a perfect substance. |
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Bacon (English) |
Helped Develop the Scientific Method: The process used to solve hypotheses |
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Descrates (France) |
Also help develop Scientific Method and Analytical Geometry: Which linked algebra and geometry. |
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Newton (English) |
Put forward essays on laws of gravitation. |
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Boyle (English/Irish) |
Worked in Chemistry, putting forth inmprtant equations regarding how gas and pressure imteract. |
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Rossaeu (Swiss) |
Thought the Government should have a "Social Contract" with its people where we give up certian freedoms and in return, the government protects us. |
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Montesquieu (French) |
Believed the government should have 3 branches to keep the government from getting to powerful. Legislative (make laws), Executive (enforce laws), and Judicial (interpret the law). |
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Locke (English) |
Said the Government should lock up our rights, and said we have Life, Liberty, and Property. |
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Voltaire (French) |
Help estlablish the Bill of Rights (The first 10 Amendments). Also said that church and state should be seprated. |
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Wollstonecraft (English) |
Womans Rights |
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Becarria (Italian) |
Against Government Torture. |
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Hobbes (English) |
Believed that people are evil and live in a "State of Nature", which was basically anarchy. |
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Jefferson (British American) |
Believed people were entitled to Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness. |
