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    People were beginning to compare themselves and realized the similarities or differences that shaped their society. A last important trait for the inspiration of the Enlightenment came from two men. Isaac Newton and John Locke. Newton was known as a genius and made a great deal at instructing his personal rules to later uncover natural laws governing politics, economics, religion, arts, etc. His concept was recognized as the Newtonian world-machine. Locke tried to prove

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    The Contributions of Isaac Newton Essay

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    Sir Isaac Newton was a well educated person. He wrote on many topics including math, science, religion, and even philosophy. He also held many high ranking positions such as a member of the Royal Society and being the Master of the Mint. Information about his life and achievements will be discussed in the following paragraphs, along with how the achievements relate to the humanities base theme of faith and reason. Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day in 1642. This is the same year

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    observatory of his time and a keen ability to make detailed observations. Before his unfortunate demise at the dinner table of the emperor ("Let's Go Europe, 2000"), he amassed a great amount of data so that other astronomers wouldn't have to. Isaac Newton realized the importance of work such as Brahe's when he said, "If I have seen farther [than those before me], it is because I have stood on the shoulders of Giants" [text]. Brahe's observations led to great discoveries by those who used his data

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    Sir Isaac Newton once said, “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Aside from his countless contributions to the worlds of math and science, this may be his most important quote because it is what he based his life on—building bridges of knowledge. Throughout his life he was devoted to expanding his and others knowledge past previously known realms. Often regarded of the father of calculus, Newton contributed many notable ideas and functions to the world through his creation of calculus

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    scientists, and philosophers, such as Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Francis Bacon, flew in the face of the 16th century intellectual orthodoxy. Of these great thinkers, the ideas Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Rene Descartes (1596-1650), and Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), stand as prime examples of human reason

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    The Life of Johannes Kepler HIS LIFE Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer and mathematician ho discovered that planetary motion is elliptical. Early in his life, Kepler wanted to prove that the universe obeyed Platonistic mathematical relationships, such as the planetary orbits were circular and at distances from the sun proportional to the Platonic solids (see paragraph below). However, when his friend the astronomer Tycho Brahe died, he gave Kepler his immense collection of astronomical

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    government, and construe the best form of it. Blaise Pascal and Isaac Newton are two enlightened individuals with different views that challenged and formed political thought. In spite of that, Newton 's benefactions to political theory have stood the test of time and continue to shape the contemporary world. Isaac Newton was a physicist and a mathematician who was widely recognized as one of the most influential scientist of all time. Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England and was

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    I’m going to be talking about Isaac newton on about three different topics. Who is Isaac Newton? Isaac newton was born on January 4, 1643 in woolsThorpe-by-colsterworth, United Kingdom and died on March 31, 1727 Kensington, London, and United Kingdom. Isaac newton 's occupations were philosopher, Astronomer, Physicist, scientist, and Mathematician. What did he do? There’s a legend about him that he discovered gravity when he saw a falling apple. Isaac newton also discovered the color spectrum and

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    The Roman Catholic Church responded treatment of Luther, Huguenots in France, relationship with the Holy Roman Emperor, the Jesuits and the Council of Trent, treatment of Galileo and other scientists very differently. Luther was called before Emperor Charles V to recant his beliefs. Although some German Princes sided with Luther, it was still declared an outlaw. He protected by a German Prince Frederick the Wise. He translates Erasmus’ Greek Bible into German. Holy Roman Emperor and the RCC were

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    The suspicion of these scientific facts quickly grew to an open challenging of these facts, The Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution is something we have all studied in our grade school years and the discoveries of people such as Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei are well documented and arguably common knowledge but Jardine’s book Ingenious Pursuits encapsulates the scientific revolution in a new light. Jardine accomplishes this by telling the stories of some of the greatest achievements

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