THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Galileo Galilei.
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Nicolaus Copernicus.
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Francis Bacon.
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Isaac Newton.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system, that the planets orbit around the Sun; that Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis; and that very slow changes in the direction of this axis account for the precession of the equinoxes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Note:Ptolemy was an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer who held the view that the earth was at the center of the universe. Nicolaus Copernicus found that his theory was incorrect and proposed the heliocentric theory which later influenced Johannes Kepler.