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12/01/2009

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Napier
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Logarithms
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Fahrenheit
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The mercury thermometer and the Fahrenheit temperature system, which had mroe range.
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Adam Smith
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Wealth of Nations, coming up with law of supply and demand
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D'Holbach
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Extreme atheist, wrote system of nature, denying god's existence and human soul
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Jansen
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Compound Microscope
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Newton
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Came up with gravity and invented Calculus to prove it.
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Bacon
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Formalized the empirical method of Brahe and Galileo into inductive reasoning known as empiricism
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Kepler
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Came up with three laws of planetary observation
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Ptolemy
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Last great classical astronomer. Believed in geocentric universe, tried to smooth out the irregularities of the orbits
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Galileo
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Prooved the heliocentric theory, discovered moons of jupiter and observed the craters of the moosn
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Celcius
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Created temperature system based on water
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Copernicus
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First astronomer to compile systme of universe based on heliocentric theory
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Descartes
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Discovered analytical geometry, developed Cartesian dualism, "Doubt everthing that is systematically doubtable'A
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Hume
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Claimed life is a bundle of impression
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Harvey
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Explained circulation of blood in the body.
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Leowenhook
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first person to see bacteria
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Pain
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Wrote common sense, ignited the American revolution
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Boyle
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Wrote the gas laws
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Cavendish
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Prooved water is not an element
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Voltaire
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Proponent for freedom of thought reason and toleration. Empirical knowledge, there are fundamental truths in the world. Deist, believing that god is a clock maker, he made perfect laws that we must figure out.
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Diderot
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Made the encyclopedia
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Locke
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Wrote Second treatise of civil government when humans are born their minds are tabula rasa, blank slate. Rights of life liberty and property.
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Rousseau
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Said that men were good, but society makes people bad Reason is the cure. Wrote Social Contract
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Montesquieu
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Wrote The Spirit of the Laws, advocating seperation of powers. Wrote Persian letters to satirize european society
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Howard
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Reformed prisoners
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Swift
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Wrote Gulliver's Travels, criticized science.
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Molier,
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French actor who's comedies ridiculed the false airs of the newly rich
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Gibbon
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HIstorian who wrote the Rise and Fall of the Roman empire.
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Defoe
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Wrote Robinson Crusoe
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Kant
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German philosopher who promoted freedom of the press
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Vesalius
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studied human anatomy
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Caritat
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nine stages of life, tenth is death (killed himself)
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Jefferson
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Wrote the declaration of independence using the ideas of E thinkers
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Hobbes
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Humans have some righs but not many. They have no capacity for self government. Said life and the state of nature was poor nastily, brutish and short
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Bayel
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Historical and critical dictionary. Evaluated the monarchy and he wrote in a language common people could understand
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Fontenelle
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Tried to make science more entertaining. Wrote conversaitions on the plurallity of the world.
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D'alembert
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Classified people as truly englighted public and the blind and noisy multitude. The public-enlightened people.
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Franklin
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Electricity, stove, fire departments, public libraries, etc.
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Tordichelli
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Invented Barometer
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