Enlightenment and Revolution

This theory challenged the age old belief that the earth was the center of the universe

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Absolute Authority

• Divine Right

The first leader of the fight for women's equality

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The astronomer who correctly reasoned that the earth, planets, stars, and moons revolve around the sun.

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Discovered the law of the pendulum, built his own telescope, and tested his theory about falling objects on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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The two scientists that gave us the scientific method

• Mary and William

• Bacon and Descartes

• Copernicus and Kepler

• Hobbes and Locke

In 1687 he published Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, one of the most important scientific books ever written.

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What political thinker wrote a work called, "Leviathan," in which the horrors of the English Civil War convinced him that all humans were naturally selfish and wicked?

• Hobbes

• Locke

Political thinker who invented the social contract- the belief that, without governments, it would be "man vs. man" out there; therefore, to escape this nasty, bleak life, people need to give up their rights to a strong ruler.

• Hobbes

• Locke

The Philosophes believed in these important concepts as the key to their philosophy (choose all that apply)

• Reason

• Nature

• Happiness

• Progress

• Liberty

Invented the Separation of Powers

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