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A scientist named Galileo invented the microscope and discovered that the Milky Way was made up of stars.
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Galileo published Dialouge concerning Two CHief World Systems. This included the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus. It showed Galileos supports for them.
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Thomas Hobbes, an English thinker wrote a book called Leviathan. He thought that people were selfish and greedy because of the violence of the English civil war.
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Robert Boyle created The Sceptical Chemist. It described how matter was a cluster of tiny particles.
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Newton published his best work of all time, it wa called The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy . In this he explained the law of gravity. It mainly says that gravity affects objects in the universe as well as on Earth.
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Francois-Marie Arouet made fun of the Duke of New Orleans, and he was put in prison for 11 months.
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The king of Prussia thought that he was supposed to rule with absolute power to build Prussia's strength.
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The government tried to stop publication because the Encyclopedia criticized the church, but the man who wrote it (Diderot) continued writing the rest in secret.
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Catherine II became the ruler of Russia. She wanted to establish order and justice while supporting education.
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Diderot finished the last volume of the Encyclopedia
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Joseph II became the ruler of Austria. He wanted to have an ambitious reform program.
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Delegates made a constitution in Philadelphia to revise Articles
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King Louis XVI tried to tax the Second Estate because he became so desperate for money.
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In 1788, the worst winter in 80 years came. Frozen water made it to where water wheels could not work so they didnt power the mills to ground wheat into flour.
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France first saw the upheaval of revolution
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The first and second estates, the upper clergy and the nobility were all unhappy. They had all lost power to the Monnarchy so they were really dissapointed.
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Joseph II died, but before he died they forced him to revoke some of his reforms.