Scientific
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- JOHN LOCKE
- NATURAL RIGHTS-LIFE,LIBERTY,AND PROPERTY
- BACON AND DESCARTES
- REASON AND LOGIC
- KEPLER
- PLANTES HAVE ELLIPTICALORBITS
- HARVEY
- HEART PUMPS BLOOD
- BECCARIA
- REFORM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
- Stuart, Charles
- King Charles l of England
- VOLTAIRE
- RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
- HOOKE
- CELLS
- BOYLE
- AIR IS MADE OF GASES
- Newton
- English scientist and mathematician considered to be the greatest figure in the history of science. Newton's work became the inspiration for The Age of Reason.
- Quakers
- A religious group also known as the Society of friends
- Orrery
- A popular 18th century scientific toy made of pulleys and spheres that could be cranked to mimmick the way the heavenly bodies move around the sun
- NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
- EARTH ORBITS THE SUN;EARTH ROTATES ON ITS AXIS
- NEWTON
- GRAVITY; LAWS OF MOTION; CALCULUS
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- An important French philosopher of the Age of reason.
- Puritans
- A religious group, Queen Elizabeth1
- S. Johnson
- Compiled the first Comprehensive English dictionary
- Scientific Method
- Observation, Generalization, Experimentation
- ISAAC NEWTON
- NATURAL LAW
- Voltaire, Francois
- A foremost French writer and Philosopher of the age of reason
- Philosophiae Naturals Principia Mathematica
- Isaac Newton's most famous scientific book 1686-87
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Swedish botanist who developed the first successful system for classifying living things into similar groups, a system that is still in use today.
- GALILEO
- OTHER PLANETS HAVE MOONS
- Reason
- To think coherently and logically; to draw conclusions from the facts
- MONTESQUIEU
- SEPARATION OF POWERS
- LAVAISIER
- HOW MATERIALS BURN
- Pilgrims
- A band of English Puritans who founded the Plymouth colony in 1620
- The Restoration
- The return of the institution of monarchy in england in 1660, king charlesll
- HOBBES AND ROUSSEAU
- THE SOCIAL CONTRACT