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Copernic and Galileo proved that the earth is a small sphere revolving around the

       sun in an ‘infinite universe’. This discovery brought the first inquiries in the modern
       world. The views of the church on the universe and humanity no longer satisfy the

       public. The leading philosophers and scientists of the time such as Galielo,
       Descartes, Newton, Copernicus carried out a new scientific revolution in
       understanding the universe. The encyclopedias firstly punished and the knowledge

       began to circulate:





                                                                                                                                                                         Jan Matejko, Astronomer Copernicus. 1873



















                                                                                                                             Galileo

    Nicolaus Copernicus's                                                                                                                                                                                         Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    radical Heliocentric model                                                                                                             Robert Boyle’s air pump
                                                                                                                                                                         Robert Boyle
                       Andreas Vesalius, De humani
                       corporis fabrica, 1543, p. 174:    exctract from Bertrand Russell, History of western philosophy
                                                                                                                                                                                       Social Contract by Rousseau



































                                                                                                                                                        Reading of Voltaire's tragedy of the Orphan of China in the salon of
                                                                                                                                                        Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, by Lemonnier
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