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heliocentric" model of the solar system in Commentariolus In this model, the sun Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy was actually not exactly the center of the solar system,
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he lived in fear of his govrment
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Newton's law of gravitation states that every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality
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On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and its king.
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King Louis XVI needed money. His financial crisis forced the French monarch to reluctantly convene the Estates General in order to levy a new land tax that would hopefully solve his monetary woes.
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The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. so the prison had a riot
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She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society
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The execution of Louis XVI took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution
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first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years
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