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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic Canon. He proved that the earth was not the center of the universe. He also proved the earth was spinning on its axis to the side. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was considered to be an English philosopher
Scientific knowledge is obtained after making observations and observing the evidence. Not based on guesses only fact based -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei studied speed, velocity, and gravity
He was the first man to discover to telescope to make astronomical discoveries
Galileo Galilei is considered to be the "father of modern astronomy" for his great discoveries. -
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes was a creative mathematician and an important scientific thinker
Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry
Rene Descartes also created the scientific method of deductive reasoning. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was an English and an active politician
Isaac Newton formed the three basic laws of motion
He invented Calculus which is commonly used in schools today. -
John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician
He is mainly known for his ideas of natural law
He is also known for his social contract and right to revolution -
Montesquieu
Montesquieu was known for pronouncing slavery to be considered evil and wrong.
He believed in the preservation of civil liberties and laws.
He is one of the founders of sociology -
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher and art critic
He published the first Encyclopedia
He studied and believed in human knowledge -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He believed that Man should be free and independent in nature
He was considered to be one of the 18th century's most important political thinker
Most important person in the Social contract -
Voltaire
Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer
He believed in freedom of relgion
Voltaire separated church and state -
James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor and a chemist
He helped start the Industrial Revolution
He made the Compass and the Scale -
Adam Smith
Adam Smith believed that you can only gain wealth from hard work and labor
He was against government intervention in economy
He highly believed in the concept of supply and demand -
George Washington
- Leader of the military force
- He was the very first president
- He led the attack that started the world war
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Thomas Jefferson
- Famous for mainly writing the Declaration of Independence
- Called the American Founding Father
- Jefferson was a Slave owner who wanted slavery to be abolished
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart was a musical Composer
He had 800 pieces written in his entire life that are still played today
Nobody knows where he was buried still to this day -
Maximillien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer
He was against any kind of slavery he defended the Jews and the black slaves
Known for " Instituting the reign of terror" -
Miguel Hidalgo
Known as the father of Mexican Independence
He was an insurgent and a priest
He became head of his school after graduating from it -
Simon Bolivar
He was the president of Gran Colombia
He is considered to be the liberator of Spanish South America
He led amazing military forces