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The Enlightenment
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Thomas Hobbes
Caused gret controversy with the release of hid provocative treatise Leviathan. -
Isaac Newton
Publised his " Principia Mathematica". -
The Catholic king James II
English Protestants helped overthrow the Catholic king James II and installed the Protestant monarchs William and Mary. -
Jogn Locke
Jogn Locke published his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". Two works thst provided the scientific, mathematical and philosophical tool for the Enlightenment major advances. -
Jogn Locke
Promoted the opposite tyoe of government. A representative government, in his Two Treatises of Government. -
Philosophes
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 -
Encyclopedie
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) -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, whoes "declaration of Independence" framed the American Revolution in terms taken from of Locke's essays. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution of 1789 was the culmination of the High Enlightenment vision of throwing out theold authorities to remake society along rational lines.
