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- Isaac Newton
- disproved the idea of Aristotle
- Edward Jenner
- introduced first vaccine to smallpox
- Mary Wolstonecraft
- argued for women's rights to participate in politics
- Catherine the Great of Russia
- RECOMMENDED abolishing torture, capital punishment, religous tolerance
- Joseph Priestly
- seperated one pure gas from air (this type of air was later called oxygen)
- Nicholas Copernicus
- concluded that stars,earth,other planets revolved around the sun
- Franz Haydn
- developed sonata and symphony
- John Locke
- believed that people are born free and equal with three natural rights-life,liberty,property
- Ludwig Beethoven
- piano music and symphonies
- Denis Diderat
- developed the encyclopedia in 1751-1772
- Rene Descartes
- relied on mathmatics and logic in the pursuit of truth and doubted evrything
- Joseph II of Austria
- introduced legal reform. freedom of press, abolished serfdom
- William Harvey
- described how the heart acted as a pump
- Galileo Galilei
- proved that objects fall at a predictable rate
- Voltaire
- best known for work "Candide"
- Jean Rousseau
- only good gov't was one freely formed by the people & guided by the "general will"
- Zacharius Janssen
- invented first microscope
- Robert Boyle
- considered the founder of modern chemistry
- Frederick The Great of Prussia
- granted religous freedom, reduced censorship, improved education, reformed the justice system, and abolished torture
- Wolfgang Mozart
- "Marriage of Figaro"
- Andreas Vesalius
- presented detailed drawings of entire human body (organs,bones)
- Montesquieu
- believed in the system of "checks and balances"
- Evangelista Torricelli
- invented first mercury barometer
- Francis Bacon
- urged scholars to observe the world and gather information & draw conclusions
- Marie Therese Geoffrin
- helped finance project of creating the encyclopedia
- Brahe
- collected mathmatical data on the movement of planets
- Beccaria
- believed that laws existed to pressure social order
- Gabriel Farenheit
- made the first thermometer to use mercury in glass
- Anton Van Leewenhock
- used microscope to observe bacteria and red blood cells
- Thomas Hobbes
- argued that natural state of man was brutish ande nasty
- Johannes Kepler
- mathematically proved that the planets revolved around the sun