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Caused gret controversy with the release of hid provocative treatise Leviathan.
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Publised his " Principia Mathematica".
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English Protestants helped overthrow the Catholic king James II and installed the Protestant monarchs William and Mary.
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Jogn Locke published his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". Two works thst provided the scientific, mathematical and philosophical tool for the Enlightenment major advances.
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Promoted the opposite tyoe of government. A representative government, in his Two Treatises of Government.
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Enlightenment thinkers, or philosophes, were born in the years after the Glorious Revolution, With that being said Frane's Enlightenment came a bit later in the mid-1700s
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The signature publication of the period was Diderot's "Encyclopedie" which brought together leading authors to produce an ambitious compilation of human knowledge.(1751-77)
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Jean Jacques Rosseau wrote The Social Contract , a work hampioning a form of government based on small, direct democracy that directly reflects the will of the population.
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Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, whoes "declaration of Independence" framed the American Revolution in terms taken from of Locke's essays.
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The French Revolution of 1789 was the culmination of the High Enlightenment vision of throwing out theold authorities to remake society along rational lines.
