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Top 13 Important Thinkers in The Scientific Revolution

13. Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)

  • Spent years dissecting corpses and drawing detailed illustrations of the human body
  • Contributed a lot to the study of human…

16 Key Stages in the French Revolution

1. Assembly of Notables (1787)

  • Why’d it happen?
  • France is broke because of all its wars, so Louis XVI’s finance minister calls nobles to try to get them support a new tax plan

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