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Blaise Pascal invented the world's first computing machine that would lead to our modern calculator.
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The reign of Louis XIV began in 1643
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Charles Huygens invented the first Crown-Wheel Escapement.
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Edmund Halley is credited to predicting the first comet that would be recorded. He also created the first chart of stars in the Southern Hemisphere.
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"One King, One Law, One Faith"
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Universal Laws of Gravity
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Two Treatise of Governement and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding were published during 1689 and 1690. "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
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Savery's invented the first steam enginge that became the prototype for other inventors.
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Rococo Art was an artform that illustrated the aristocratic daily living of that time.
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First person to use the discovery of materials to measure temperatures.
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George Handel and his contributions to the world of music.
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"Modest Proposal" and Saitire.
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
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Frederick the Great, 1740-1786, and Prussia.
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Inventor, Scientist, and philosopher
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Dierdot quoted in Encloypedie that this was an attempt to "to change the way people think."
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"To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence”
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War and conflict that stretched over England and reached North America.
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Catherine the Great, Prussian Queen.
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"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do"
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." influenced greatly by John Locke
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Smith coined the phrase the "invisable hand" and became the godfather of our economic belief system.
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Introduced the human mind as an originator of experience rather than just a passive recipient of perception.
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The French Monarch is beheaded and France continues to fight for independence from traditional absolute monarchy rule.
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"The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person."
