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1. Bernini

Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsOrganized Religion Did Not Allow For Freedom Of Thought Or Scientific Contradiction To Religious Beliefs.

2. Margaret Cavendish

Organized Religion Did Not Allow For Freedom Of Thought Or Scientific Contradiction To Religious Beliefs.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

3. Quesnay

Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Organized Religion Did Not Allow For Freedom Of Thought Or Scientific Contradiction To Religious Beliefs.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other Scientists

4. Why Did The Philosophes Consider Organized Religion To Be Their Greatest Enemy?

Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsOrganized Religion Did Not Allow For Freedom Of Thought Or Scientific Contradiction To Religious Beliefs.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

5. Thomas Hobbes

A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.English Materialist And Political Philosopher Who Advocated Absolute Sovereignty As The Only Kind Of Government That Could Resolve Problems Caused By The Selfishness Of Human Beings (1588-1679)Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.

6. How Did The Enlightenment Change Basic Western Attitudes Toward Reform - Faith - And Reason?

The Enlightenment Caused People To Think That Reform Was Possible And Desirable - And Religion Was Not As Important As Science. Many People Had Positive Attitudes Toward It.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

7. Nicolas Copernicus

(1473-1543) Concluded That The Sun Is The Center Of Our Solar System. Heliocentric Theory Or Copernicus Theory. He Wrote "On The Revolution Of Heavenly Spheres"Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

8. Moses Mendelson

Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsJewish Philosopher Whose Ideas Lead To The Jewish Enlightenment.

9. Caravaggio

Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.Italian Painter Noted For His Realistic Depiction Of Religious Subjects And His Novel Use Of Light (1573-1610)A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

10. Salons

Informal Social Gatherings At Which Writers - Artists - Philosophes - And Others Exchanged IdeasEducated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.

11. Rene Descartes

A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.17th Century French Philosopher; Wrote Discourse On Method; 1st Principle "I Think Therefore I Am"; Believed Mind And Matter Were Completly Seperate; Known As Father Of Modern RationalismLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other Scientists

12. Maria Winklemann

Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Wife & Assistant Of Kirch - Discovered Comet 1702 But Under Husband's Name; For Berlin Academy Of Sciences Made Calendar.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other Scientists

13. Mary Wollstonecraft

Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.British Feminist Of The Eighteenth Century Who Argued For Women's Equality With Men - Even In Voting - In Her 1792 "Vindication Of The Rights Of Women."A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

14. Deism

The Religion Of The Enlightenment (1700s). Followers Believed That God Existed And Had Created The World - But That Afterwards He Left It To Run By Its Own Natural Laws. Denied That God Communicated To Man Or In Any Way Influenced His Life.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.

15. Tycho Brahe

Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsDanish Astronamer Who Produced Large Amounts Of Astromatical Data But Believed That Other Planets Rotated Around The Sun While The Sun And Moon Rotated Around The EarthLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

16. John Locke

A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.English Empiricist Philosopher Who Believed That All Knowledge Is Derived From Sensory Experience (1632-1704)Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other Scientists

17. Benedict De Spinoza

Dutch Jewish Philosopher - Modern Biblical Critic - Rationalists - Wrote Magnum Opus - The Posthumous Ethics - In Which He Opposed Descartes' Mind-Body Dualism.A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.

18. Encylopedie

Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.Edited By Diderot - It Was A Compilation Of All The Available Knowledge - Historical - Scientific - Technical - Religious And Moral During The Enlightenment.

19. Houdon

Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsLeader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.(1741-1828) Neoclassical Sculptor - Did Busts/Portraits Of Rousseau - Voltaire - Moliere - Napoleon - Jefferson - Franklin - Washington EtcA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

20. What Were The Attitudes Of The Philosophes Toward Women?

Rousseau Believed Women Should Be Confined To The Domestic Sphere - While Wollstonecraft Felt Women Should Be Given Equal Rights As Men.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.

21. Peter Paul Rubens

Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Is The Most Famous Baroque Artist Who Studied Michelangelo In Italy And Took That Renaissance Style To The Next Level Of Drama - Motion - Color - Religion And Animation - Which Is Portrayed In His Paintings

22. Laissez Faire

A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.An economic Theory That Government Should Not Regulate Or Interfere With CommerceEducated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other Scientists

23. Watteau

A Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Rococo Artist. Aristocratic Artist - Figures In Stately Poses - Gently Engaged In Unimportant Activities. Pastel Colors.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other Scientists

24. Cesare Beccaria

Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.An Italian Jurist - Philosopher And Politician Best Known For His Treatise On Crimes And Punishments - Which Condemned Torture And The Death Penalty.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.

25. Philosophes

Thinkers Of The Enlightenment; Wanted To Educate The Socially Elite And Used Satire And Double-Meaning In Their Writings About Politics And Religion; They Considered Themselves Part Of An Intellectual Community.Educated Scientist And Astronomer; Excluded From English Royal Society - Regardless Of Her Many Accomplishments; Wrote Several Books Contrasting Her Knowledge With The Knowledge Of Other ScientistsA Baroque Architect And Sculptor. Made The Colonnade For Piazza In Front Of St. Peter's Basilica In Rome And Was His Greatest Architectural Work.Leader Of The Physiocrats Who Thought That Land Was The Source Of All Wealth And Supported Laissez-Faire Economies.

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