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2. child prodigy, failed to get a regular patron to support him which financially made his life miserable
5. a system of planetary motion that put earth in the middle of the universe
7. English philosopher who developed the scientific method
8. a system that placed the sun in the middle of the universe
9. Wrote Discourse on Method, dominated western thought
13. a mathemetician who made the heliocentric experiment
15. an intellectual individual in the enlightenment, his ideas suggested htat people wee molded by the experiences from the surrounding world.

1. a system of thought based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
3. showed that the planets that orbit the sun were not circular
4. presented his concept of the social contract
6. a period when philosophers used reason and the scientific method to discover more about human nature
10. someone who studies wisdom
11. used a telescope to make observations, his observations seemed to ruin another theory of the ptolemaic system
12. a procedure used for collecting and analyzing evidence
14. believed that the physical world and everything in it was like a giant machine, one of the enlightenment influencers