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1 | | Who put forth his theories in a book called The Leviathan? |
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2 | | Whose writings are recognized as the starting point of international law? |
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3 | | 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 balances? |
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4 | | What is a tabula rasa? |
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5 | | 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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6 | | What is the name of the theory that the universe is earth-centered? |
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7 | | What artist and scientist traveled to Surinam to study and illustrate the life cycles of insects? |
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8 | | What is the name of the theory that the universe is centered around the sun? |
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9 | | Who believed the universe is infinite, Copernicus or Thomas Digges? |
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10 | | Name the two pieces of scientific equipment based on lenses that were invented in about 1600 in the Netherlands. |
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11 | | Name the first Westerner of the Common Era to present the model of the universe in which the sun is at the center. |
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12 | | Who set forth three laws of planetary motion, including one which stated that planets' speed increases as they near the sun? |
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13 | | Name the third-century BCE Greek thinker who said that the sun was at the center of the universe. |
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14 | | 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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15 | | 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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16 | | Who invented the universally accepted symbols for calculus? |
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17 | | Who is credited with discovering gravity? |
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18 | | What baroque artist painted a scene of a group watching the dissection of the arm of a human cadaver? |
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19 | | Who is credited with dualism, creating a division between the material world and the human soul or mind? |
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20 | | 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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