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Who put forth his theories in a book called The Leviathan? |
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Whose writings are recognized as the starting point of international law? |
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Whose political tracts influenced American and French political thinkers who used its ideas to justify the right to revolt against a tyrant and to establish a government of checks and balanaces? |
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What is a tabula rasa? |
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Whose explanation of the origin of ideas is the basis of modern empiricism (the theory that all knowledge is derived from or originates in human experience)? |
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What is the name of the theory that the universe is earth-centered? |
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What artist and scientist traveled to Surinam to study and illustrate the life cycles of insects? |
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What is the name of the theory that the universe is centered around the sun? |
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Who believed the universe is infinite, Copernicus or Thomas Digges? |
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Name the two pieces of scientific equipment based on lenses that were invented in about 1600 in the Netherlands. |
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Name the first Westerner to present the model of the universe in which the sun is at the center. |
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Who claimed that he "stood on the shoulders of giants," meaning that great scientists preceded him who enabled him to come up with his own scientific breakthroughs? |
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Name the third century-B.C. Greek thinker who said that the sun was at the center of the universe. |
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Name the Greek and Egyptian philosophers whose theory that the earth was at the center of the universe was considered accurate for centuries. |
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Name two great astronomers whose ideas were denied and denounced by Christian religious leaders. One of them was actually threatened with torture by the Inquisition. |
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Who invented the universally accepted symbols for calculus? |
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Who is credited with discovering gravity? |
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What Baroque artist painted a group scene watching the dissection of the arm of a human cadaver? |
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Who is credited with dualism, that created division between the material world and the human soul or mind? |
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What country, which had been governed by England in order to control business ventures, became the world's most populous democracy after over three hundred years of British domination? |
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