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| Word | Clue |
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| 11 letters | "noble savage" man in a simpler state of nature was good and was corrupted by the _____ of civilization |
| 6 letters | 1694-1774; leader of the physiocrats in France who opposed mercantilist policies; sought to _____ the existing agrarian system by instituting laissez faire in agriculture; believed the French government and nobility had too much control over land |
| 8 letters | Perhaps the most influential of all enlightenment philosophers he wrote his criticisms with a sharp sarcasm that ridiculed those with whom he dis agreed . |
| 5 letters | A Danish astronomer, carefully recorded movements of the planets he constructed the most accurate tables of observations that had been drawn up for centuries. |
| 6 letters | Son and co-regent of Maria Theresa. He was one of the greatest "Enlightened Despots" and was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment and its emphasis on reforms. |
| 9 letters | It gathers light and directs it to a single point, first used by Galileo as a scientific instrument. |
| 10 letters | A theory of inductive reasoning that calls for acquiring evidence through observation and experimentation rather than deductive reason and speculation. |
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