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Western Civi1

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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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