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The Leviathan, by THomas Hobbes, mean Devil. He called it this because Hobbes believed that all people were evil.
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Principia Mathematica brought much international fame to Isaac Newton. In the Principia Mathematica he lays out the laws of motion and explains the idea of universal gravity in mathmatical terms. This will be used by Enlightment's thinkers as mathimatical and scientific tools for other advances.
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding was published by John Locke in 1689 talking about human understanging of the world around them and themselfs. Was also used a tool for thinkers of the time.
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In 1689 the English bill of rights is created limiting the king from absoulte power.
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The first part is about Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha(supports divione right) and critzies it. the half is about how John locke thinks a government should be stucted.
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In 1748 Montesuieu published The Spirit of the laws. In this he states the need for checks and balances.
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Was published over the cours of years from 1757 to 1777. The man who reseives creit for making it but of 140 people have worked on the 32 volumes collection.
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Thomas Paine publised Common Sense in 1776 to prmote American independence. Help turn an rebelion into a revolution.
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With the Declartion of Independence america put for its values forward to the world. It use many ideas from the Enlightnment.
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The new government of the US has a strong central government and it uses a lot of John locke's ideas of government and view on natrul rights.
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With the ideas of the Enlightnment in the heads of the french pulling the french to revoltuion while heavy taxes and gap of the rich and the poor pushes the to fight.
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America is now recignized as a formal country on the world stage.
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