Name Drop: Thinkers Flashcards

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Recorded reactions to the Plague

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Boccaccio

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Father of Humanism

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Petrarch

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The Divine Comedy: Dante’s Inferno

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Dante Alighieri

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The Prince: Humanist

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Machiavelli

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5
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Invented the Printing Press

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Gutenberg

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Don Quixote: Chivalric Romance

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Cervantes

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Incredible English Playwright and Poet

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Shakespeare

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Heliocentric Theory

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Copernicus

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Geocentric Theory

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Brahe

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10
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Heliocentric expanded

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Kepler

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Telescopes: Inertia: Space

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Galileo

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Gravity: Planetary Motion: Empiricism

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Newton

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13
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Inductive Reasoning

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Bacon

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Deductive Reasoning

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Descartes

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15
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Discovered a comet, Husband credited

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Kirch

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Female Scientist, Philosopher, and Writer

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Margaret Cavendish

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17
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Invented Iron plow: improved farming: casting seeds

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Tull

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18
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Fertilizer in sandy soil

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Townshend

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19
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Animal breeding

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Bakewell

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20
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Spinning Jenny

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Hargreaves

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21
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Water Frame

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Arkwright

22
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Power Loom

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Carwright

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Steam Engine

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Watt

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Constitutionalism: Equal Education: Equal rights for women

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Condorcet

25
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Life, Liberty, property, social contract theory, blank slate

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Locke

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Satire: Fredrick the Great loved him

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Voltaire

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Encyclopedia

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Diderot

28
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Punishment should fit the Crime: punishment to the impact on society

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Beccaria

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Laissez-faire economist

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Adam Smith

30
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Division of Government

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Montesquieu

31
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Society Corrupts

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Rosseau

32
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A Vindication for the Rights of Women

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Mary Wollstonecraft

33
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Dare to Know

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Kant

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German Philosopher

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Herder

35
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Thesis and antithesis: synthesis: Glorified Germany

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Hegel

36
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Overpopulation

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Malthus

37
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Wage fluctuations and Birth Rates

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Ricardo

38
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Private property and wealth

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Saint-Simon

39
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Utopia, socialism and feminism

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Fourier

40
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Communist manifesto

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Karl Marx

41
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Revolutionized Nursing

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Florence Nightingale

42
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Cheap Steel Manufacturing

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Bessemer

43
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Radical and violent women’s rights activist

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Emmeline Pankhurst

44
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Evolution and Traits

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Charles Darwin

45
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Social Darwinism

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Herbert Spencer

46
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Nihilism: life is meaningless

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Friedrich Nietzsche

47
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Father of Modern Psychology

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Freud

48
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Analytical Psychology

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Jung

49
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Legitimized Zionist Movement

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Balfour

50
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Sparked Zionist Movement

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Herzel