Ideas
The belief that there are certain God-given rights that everyone is born with and cannot be taken away, such as life, liberty, and property.
Inalienable Rights
An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.
Telescope
An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author.
Isaac Newton
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction
Isaac Newton
Invented an upgraded version of the refracting telescope that he named the Keplerian telescope.
Johannes Kepler
The theory that the sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point while the earth and other bodies revolve around it.
Heliocentric Theory
An optical instrument used for viewing very small objects, such as mineral samples or animal or plant cells, typically magnified several hundred times.
Microscope
An Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer.
Galileo Galilea
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
He was accused of hypocrisy by the Constitutions of Carolina
John Locke
A branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series.
Calculus
An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature, typically one consisting of a narrow, hermetically sealed glass tube marked with graduations and having at one end a bulb containing mercury or alcohol that expands and contracts in the tube with heating and cooling.
Thermometer
An English philosopher and physician.
John Locke
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
He dropped two cannon balls from the leaning tower of Pisa in a demonstration
Galileo Galilei
An approach to governing a country where there are multiple different branches of government that prevent each other from abusing power
Separation of Powers
An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
Barometer
A German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer.
Johannes Kepler
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
He was briefly a spy in Prussia for the French government
Voltaire
A theory that light is made up of small discrete particles called corpuscles which travel in a straight line with a finite velocity and possess impetus.
Corpuscular Theory of Light
A pair of eyeglasses having lenses with two parts with different focal lengths.
Bifocals
A Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer.
Jean-Jacques Rosseau
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Montesquieu
There is an element on the periodic table named after him.
Nicolaus Copernicus