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| Age of Reason | a new period of learning in Europe in which people questioned the learning of the past |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | after studying the universe for 30 years, he published a book in which he concluded that the Earth moves around the sun; NOT the sun moves around the Earth |
| Europeans | the majority of them did not believe what Copernicus published in his book based on his observations |
| Johannes Kepler | the first astronomer to observe that the planets move around the sun in oval shaped paths that he called "orbits" |
| Galileo | Italian astronomer who developed telescopes and was the first to observe the Milky Way, and moons of Jupiter |
| Scientific Revolution | a period in which people did not rely (depend) on the teachings of the past, and began to conduct experiments |
| Francis Bacon | English philosopher and writer who develoepd the scientific method for conducting experiments |
| Robert Boyle | English scientist who developed the science of chemistry and the periodic table of elements |
| Isaac Newton | English scientist who believed that everything moved according to mathematical laws, and developed calculus to show it |
| law of gravity | Newton's discovery that all objects in the universe are pulled toward each other by an invisible force |
| Andreas Vesalius | known for dissecting human bodies and published the 1st book on human anatomy |
| Ambroise Pare | discovered that pouring boiling oil on a bleeding person was not the best idea to stop that person from bleeding |
| William Harvey | doctor who found that the heart is actualy a PUMP that moves blood through the body |
| enlighten | to educate |
| Enlightenment | a movement to educate people and solve human problems through reason |
| reason | to think; problem solve |
| John Locke | philosopher who stated people are born with the natural rights to property, liberty, and life |
| Baron de Montesquieu | the first to say that government power should be divided into three parts; one person should NOT have all the power |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | the first to say that governments should serve the people, and the people give it the power to do that |
| progress | Enlightenment thinkers believed that this could be achieved and life could get better |
| vessels | Abroise Pare leanred that by tying these, one could stop bleeding |
| press, religion, speech | Enlightenment thinkers believed all people should have these basic FREEDOMS |
| ancient Greeks/Romans | believed the Earth is the center of the universe |
