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enligtenment

HOW DÝD BENJAMÝN FRANKLÝN and THOMAS PAINE ENLIGHTEN AMERICA ?
The Enligtenment comprises the period which scientists,religious rationalists and political philosophers emerged from centuries of ignorance into a new age clarified by reason,science,and respect for humanity.People of the Enligtenment took human reason to discover the naturel laws of universe and determine the natural rights of achievments as basis.Scientific rationalism,in other words the Age of Reason developed first in seventeenth century England,spread to France and Europe, and finally came to the English colonies in America in the eigteenth century.
It was an age of great discoverers,and greatest of all was Isaac Newton.His discovery of the law of gravitation supported the Copernican system and opened enormous new fields in astronomy.Copernicus demolished mediavel cosmology by proving that the sun,rather than the earth was the center of the universe.There were also new understandings and findings: Galileo’s tel...

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