Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment Vocab

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Writer of The Social Contract; supported democracy and the general will.

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Rousseau

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Wrote Two Treatises on Government; believed people are born good and that government should serve the people's will.

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John Locke

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Wrote Leviathan; believed people are born evil and need strong governments to control their nature; supported absolute rule.

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Thomas Hobbes

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Author of Encyclopedia; brought Enlightenment ideas to the Americas, sparking political rebellions.

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Diderot

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French philosopher advocating separation of powers and checks and balances

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Montesquieu

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Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; extended Enlightenment ideas to women

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Philosopher supporting freedom of speech & church-state separation.

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Voltaire

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Heliocentric model developed by:

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Copernicus

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Planets orbit in ellipses around the sun.

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Kepler

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Used telescope to support heliocentric theory; clashed with Catholic Church.

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Galileo