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The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Key Terms

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show An era associated primarily with the 16th and 17th centuries. new ideas and knowledge in physics, astronomy, biology, medicine and chemistry transformed medieval and ancient views of nature and laid the foundations for modern science.  
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Nicolas Copernicus   show
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William Harvey   show
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Galileo   show
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Johannes Kepler   show
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Sir Francis Bacon   show
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Rene Descartes   show
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Sir Isaac Newton   show
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show was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe, that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge.  
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show was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers  
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show was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy.  
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show the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life, etc.  
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Deism   show
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show is the practice of permitting a thing of which one disapproves  
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Jean Jacques Rousseau   show
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show was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights  
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The Social Contract   show
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The General Will   show
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Philosophes   show
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show written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy  
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