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300 BCE
Aristotle explained the geocentric theory
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168
Ptolemy supported the geocentric theory
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1512
Nicolas Copernicus reasoned the heliocentric theory
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1543
Andres Vesalius published on the Fabric Of the Human body
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Zacharias Janssen invented the microscope
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the Baroque period began
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Galileo developed the law of the Pendulum
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Johannes Kepler published the first two laws of planetary motion
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Francis Bacon published novum organum which encouraged the experimental method
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Galileo was put under house arrest by an inquisition for supporting Copernicus theory
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Rene Descartes published discourse on method which set fourth his reasoning
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Evangelista Torricelli developed the first mercury barometer
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Thomas Hobbes published leviathan
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William Harvey showed the heart acted as a pump to circulate blood thorughtout the body
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Robert Boyle created Boyels law
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek saw red blood cells for the first time
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Isaac newton publish his law on gravity
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John Locke explained his theory on natural rights
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Mary astell wrote serious proposal to ladies
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Gabriel Fahrenheit made the first thermometer
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Francois- Marie Arouet changed his name to Voltaire and goes on to champion individual freedoms
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Andres Celsius created a scale for the mercury thermometer
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Denis Diderot published the first volume of the encyclopedia
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The enlightened despot, Fredrick II, began his rule on Persia.
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Montesquieu published spirt of laws
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Marie Therese Geoffrin held her first salon of philisophers
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The classical period began
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emilie du chatalet translated newtons work from latin to french
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The enlightenment despot, Kathrine the great, began her rule on russia
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jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the social contact
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Cesare beccaria published on crimes and punishments
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Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence.
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Antoine Lavoisier discovered and named gas oxygen
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The enlightenment despot, Joseph II, began his rule of Austria
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The U.S enacted the constitution
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The U.S congress added the bill of rights.
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Marry wollstonecraft wrote a vindication of the rights of women
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Edward Jenner introduced a vaccine to prevent small pox