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The Scientific Revolution | Refers to the period during which foundations of modern science were laid down.
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Nicolas Copernicus | Came up with the heliocentric view of the solar system.
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William Harvey | English physician who discovered that the heart is the reason blood circulates through the human body.
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Galileo | Discovered the use of the telescope, sun spots, mountains & valleys on the moon, largest satellites of Jupiter, the laws of falling bodies and the motions of projectiles, and the phases of Venus.
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Johannes Kepler | Formulated and verified the three laws of planetary motion.
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Sir Francis Bacon | Father of Empiricism. Discovered the scientific method.
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Rene Descartes | The first man to explain the universe in terms of motion & matter.
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Sir Isaac Newton | Discovered the three laws of gravitation.
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Age of Enlightenment | Describes the trends in thought and the letters in Europe & the American colonies during the 18th century.
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John Locke | Discovered Empiricism.
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Thomas Hobbes | One of the first modern Western thinkers to provide a secular justification for the political state.
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Progress | Forward or onward a movement or destination.
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Deism | The belief in a supreme being. (Thinkers could accept the new rationalism without specifically denying the supernatural.)
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Tolerance | The willingness to tolerate/withstand something.
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Jean Roseau | Deeply influenced the revolution with his political views.
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