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3 Revolutions
Definition
Industrial
French/American
Enlightenment
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Isaac Newton
Definition
father of scientific revolution, key to enlightenment, leads to reason
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John Locke
Definition
*Father of the Enlightenment
'2nd Treatise on Government'
'An Essay on Human Understanding'
-said vital differences between animal and man is ability to reason and instinct
-humans born with blank slate, environment
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Condorcet
Definition
French philosophe, 1794 wrote 'The Progress of the Human Mind' about the last 100 years, "we ain't seen nothing yet"
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Carolus Linneaus
Definition
scientist/philosophe
binomial nomenculture (genus species etc.)
perfect system, unchanged, merely added to
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Joseph Black
Definition
Scotsmen scientist/philosphe
decides to find out what air is made out of
'grandfather of chemistry'
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Antoine Lavoisier
Definition
French scientist/philosphe, picks up on Black's work, 'father of chemistry'
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Laplace
Definition
French philosophe/scientist
mathemetician & scientist
figured out how entire solar system worked
sun=comprised of gas, one day will go dark and Earth will pull off of its orbit
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Benjamin Franklin
Definition
only American Enlightenment person
"Fish and visitors stink after 3 days"
'Poor Richard's Almanac'
paris loved him
bifocals, Franklin stove, KITE->ELECTRICITY
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Francois Quesnay
Definition
pure philosphe
biologist, medical doctor, known today for views on economics,
leader of group called physiocrates
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