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Midterm People [Set 5]
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10th Grade
01/15/2009

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Issac Newton
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1687: Principia, Calculus
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Andreas Vesalus
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dissected humans, wrote On the Structure of Human Body
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Robert Boyle
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wrote The Skeptical Chymist (1661), more then 4 elements, not air, water, earth, fire
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Thomas Hobbes
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Absolute monarchy= natural law, published Leviathan
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John Locke
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natural rights belong to all; life, liberty, property
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Hugo Grotius
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called for international law code
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William Penn
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Pacifism, no violence
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Denis Diderot
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1st French translation of English encyclopedia
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Baronje Montesque, Charles Loius de Secondat
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wrote The Spirit of the Laws (2 volumes, 1748)
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Voltaire
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wrote poetry, plays, essays, books
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Jean-Jacques Rosseau
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humans good, civilization corrupts, wrote Emile, and The Social Contract
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Immanual Kant
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metaphysics (deals with spiritual issues)
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John Wesley
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started Methodism
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