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1543
Aristotle explained the geocentric theroy
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1543
Ptolemy supported the geocentric theory
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1543
Nicolaus Copernicus reasoned the heliocentric theory
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1543
Andreas 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 in art, music, and architecture
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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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William Harvey showed that the heart acted as a pump to circulate blood throughout the body
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Galileo was put under house arrest by an Inquisition for supporting Copernicus's theory
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Rene Descartes published Discourse on method which set forth 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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Robert Boyle created Boyle's Law
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek saw red blood cells for the first time
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Isaac Newton published his law of gravity
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Mary Astell wrote A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
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Marie - Thérèse Geoffrin held her first salon of philosophes
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Gabriel Fahrenheit make the first thermometer to use mercury in glass
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The Classical period began in art, music, and architecture
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The enlightened despot, Fredric ii, began his rule of Prussia
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Anders Celsius create a scale for the mercury thermometer
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Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen
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Montesquieu published On the Spirit of Laws
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Denis Diderot published the first volume of the Encyclopedia
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Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the social contract
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The enlightened despot, Catherine the Great, began her rule of Russia
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Cesare Beccaria published On Crimes and punishments
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Antoine Lavoisier discovered and named gas oxygen
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of Independence
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The enlightened 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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Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vondication of the Rights of Woman
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Emilie du Chatalet translated Newton's work from Latin into French
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Edward Jenner introduced a vaccine to prevent small pox