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10/27/2005

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Copernican hypothesis
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had enormous scientific and religious implications his thoughts about the universe and stars rejected by protestant
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Cartesian absolutism
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Descartes view of the world as consisting of two fundamental entities
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Law of inertia
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formulated by Galileo an object continues in motion forever unless stopped by some external force
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Rationalism
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everything was to submitted to the rational critical and scientific way of thinking
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Skepticism
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Bayle’s theory was very influential open minded toleration
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Skepticism
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Bayle’s theory was very influential open minded toleration
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Tabula Rasa
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the human mind at birth is like a blank tablet
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Enlightenment
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new world view of the scientific revolution played a large role in shaping the modern mind
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Enlightened absolutism
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in the later 18th century inspired rulers
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Philosophes
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one of histories most influential group of intellectuals they said that they had at last were bringing the light of knowledge to their ignorant fellow creatures
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Kepler
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formulated 3 laws of planetary motion
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Galieo
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professor in mathematics in 1589 did the telescope experimental method to solve problems
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Bacon
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English politician and writer came up with the empiricism way of solving a problem
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Descartes
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mathematical genius found a relationship between geometry and algebra used deductive reasoning from self-evident principles to ascertain scientific laws
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Newton
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law of universal gravitation saying that everything was unified into one
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Montesquieu
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wrote the Persian letters wanted to promote liberty and prevent tyranny
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Voltaire
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his real name Francis Marie Arvoet had struggled whole life against legal injustice and unequal treatment before the law
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Copernicus
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destroyed basic idea of Aristotelian physics did not believe that the earth was the center but the sun the center of the universe
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