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Anders Celsius: invented celsius scale
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Andreas Vesalius: first to accurately diagram the human anatomy
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Antoine Lavoisier: first to separate pure oxygen from air
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek: first to see red blood cells, disproved that maggots and grubs didn't spontaneously combust
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Baron de Montesquie: Believed in 3 branches of government. Checks and balances
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Cesare Boneesana Beccaria: published "On Crimes and Punishments", he tried to have torture abbolished
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Daniel Defoe: wrote Robinson Crusoe
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Denis Diderot: published 27 volumes of an encyclopedia
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Edward Jenner: created first vaccine for small pox
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Evangelista Torricelli: created barometer
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Francis Bacon: developed the scientific method
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Gabriel Fahrenheit: created thermometer and fahrenheit scale
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Galen: said the heart was one big sponge, didnt know of veins
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Galileo Galilei: invented telescope, discovered objects fall at same speed, disproved Aristotle's pendulum theory, discovered sun had dark spots
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Isaac Newton: advancements in algebra and calculus, and light composition, discovered 3 laws of motion
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Wrote the social contract info. Supported Freedom, democracy, popular sovereignty.
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Johannes Kepler: concluded mathematical laws governing planetary motion. He followed Brahe's studies
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John Locke: 2 treaties of government. Believed in life, liberty, prosperity
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Joseph Preistly: discovered oxygen
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Ludwig van Beethoven: wrote classical music during enlightenment which later changed to romanticism, wrote 9th Symphony
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Marie- Therese Geoffrin: hostess of salons, gathered enlightened thinkers in her home, encouraged Diderots encyclopedias
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Mary Astell: wrote "Serious proposals to the ladies", thought women should go to school
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Mary Wollstonecraft: first feminist, wrote Vindication of Women Rights, urged woman's rights in politics and education
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Nicolaus Copernicus: came up with the heliocentric theory and wrote "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies".
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Rene Descartes: discovered analytical geometry, also believed everything should be doubted unless developed by reason
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Robert Boyles: discovered relationship of pressure and volume
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Samuel Richardson: wrote Pamela, laid foundation for modern novels
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Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan, believed government made to create law and order. People were naturally selfish.
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Tycho Brahe: studied movements of planets, made predictions of eclipses, discovered
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Voltaire: Fought for tolerance, reason, freedom speech, freedom of religion
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William Harvey: explained how blood was pumped around the body,
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: composed 600 musical works including, Marriage of Figaro, Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni
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Zacharias Janssen: invented microscope