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Period: Oct 10, 1543 to
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
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John Locke
John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience -
Jean Baptist
French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck argues in Zoological Philosophy that creatures can inherit acquired characteristics -
RALPH WALDO
In his essay, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets out the fundamentals of the philolosphy of Transcendentalism -
1872
Pragmatism emerges as a philosophical approach in meetings of the Metaphysical Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts
