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Published “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium” in 1543.
Faced resistance from the Catholic Church.
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He idolized Pablo Picasso
His mother was a flapper
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Galileo was never married, but he did start a family
The scientist dropped out of university
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Descartes never married, but he fathered a child in 1635 with Helena Jans van der Strom creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician.
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Isaac Newton has two birthdays
He died at age 84
An apple never actually fell on his head
Isaac almost gave up on his education -
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician. ...
He is known for his influential works on political philosophy and epistemology. ...
His most famous work is “Two Treatises of Government” -
was an English philosopher and physician. ...
He is known for his influential works on political philosophy and epistemology. ...
His most famous work is “Two Treatises of Government” ... -
he did not enter the church, and he later became an atheist and embraced rationalism. Denis Diderot | Biography, Philosophy, Works, Beliefs ...
Diderot was born in 1713, the son of a master cutler. Although tonsured in 1726, -
He basically wrote the first autobiography. ...
He secretly helped writing the Encyclopédie. ...
He tried to get his musical work in the Académie. ... -
The origins of his famous pen name are unclear. ...
He was imprisoned in the Bastille for nearly a year. ...
He became hugely wealthy by exploiting a flaw in the French lottery. ... -
was educated at home for most of his early years
James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736
He was not a healthy child -
Adam Smith FRSA was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Washington was mostly self-educated. ...
He was fearless in battle. ...
Washington's bold actions saved the American Revolution, twice. ... -
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States
He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
Jefferson was a polymath -
His grave is unknown to this day
His full name was “Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart"
He wrote his first composition at just 4 years old. -
he was 36 when he died
he started the rain of taroer -
Mexican priest, teacher, and freethinker He is known as the Father of the Homeland for being one of the starters of the Mexican independence movement. He had both an academic and religious career. He got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and theology.
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he died of tuberculosis
Bolivar hoped to unite all South American countries into one nation.Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela