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Sir Isaac Newton

By Justin Mantineo

Isaac Newton helped the enlightenment with his many theories and law of science. He was a major supporter of the heliocentric view of the universe. This meant that the sun was the center of the universe. Newton has 3 laws that showed how the world works. Newton’s first law says that any object in motion will go straight until acted on by an outside force. His second law was that the acceleration of an entity is proportional to the force applied to it and inversely proportional to its mass. Newton’s third law was that for every action there is an equal opposite reaction. These laws helped him to come up with his theory of gravity. Newton was a man of science and facts but also a religious man. Near the end of his life he spent most of his time analyzing the bible, specifically the book of revelations.

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John Locke By Matt Collaco John Locke otherwise known as, “The Philosopher of Freedom” was a very important part of the enlightenment period. Like many philosophers of his time his views were against the church and for the education of the people. He believed that if people were properly educated they then could be free. His main view was that all men were born equal and it is the environment they grow up in and the actions they take that determine whom they are. “No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience” (Locke). In this quote he explains that a people cannot learn from something they have not experienced. This ties into his ideas that everyone is born with a clean slate because if a person has no previous knowledge and is unknown to the world then the world and its issues are the ones who shape who the person is. If a person is born in a lower class then they would be raised with those morals and beliefs, while a person born in the upper class may have an attitude that they deserve everything because that is the world and situation that they were brought up in.

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