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Concerning Galileo and his ideas, the Catholic Church

Voltaire’s mistress, the marquise du Chatelet 

Basically, The Social Contract, pertains to 

The world’s first industrial fair was held in 

In England, a legislative district controlled by one man or one family was known as a

In her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that the Enlightenment was based on the ideal that reason is innate in all human beings, including women.

Despite his place in the history of modern science, Isaac Newton remained extremely interested in aspects of the occult world.

Tycho Brahe contributed to the advance of astronomy by

The eighteenth-century agricultural revolution in Britain reduced the cost of food, thus giving the British extra income to purchase items produced by the Industrial Revolution.

Utopian socialist, Robert Owen, believed that humans would reveal their true natural goodness if they lived in a cooperative environment.