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Editor of the encyclopedia

Denis Diderot

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Famous laws made by Isaac Newton

Laws of Motion

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Galileo demonstrates the properties of Gravity

1591

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Name of an 18th Century Cultural movement in Europe

The Age of Enlightenment

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Lost his nose in a swordfight

Tycho Brahe

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This man believed men to be born innocent and good

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

200

By teaching himself lens-crafting, Galileo invented this device.

Telescope

200

The year Galileo was forced to renounce his theories

1633

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Centuries the Enlightenment took place in

17th and 18th Centuries

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This persons middle finger is a popular tourist destination

Galileo Galilei

300

Famous for theories of separation of the power in the government

Montesquieu

300

Type of math discovered by Isaac Newton

Calculus

300

The year the catholic church acknowledged the heliocentric theory

1992

300

Denying of a greater god

Atheism

300

John Locke graduated from this school

University of Oxford

400

Sent on exile from France for three years

François-Marie Arouet ("Voltaire")

400

Theory by Nicolaus Copernicus

Heliocentric Theory

400

The year Nicolas Copernicus published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

1543

400

Attitude among English writers toward religion

Deism

400

The French National Convention abolished this in 1793.

Worship of God

500

Englishman mentioned in American Declaration of Independence

John Locke

500

Galileo insisted that the book of nature was written in this language

Mathematics

500

The year Isaac Newton published Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica 

1687

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Book spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment

Encyclopedia

500

This person died of a burst bladder

Tycho Brahe

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