HIST 1250 Study Guide - Final Guide: French Academy Of Sciences, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Isaac Newton

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Natural philosopher who was respected both within and outside of the society as experts and significant scholars within the 18th century, he demonstrated that the law of gravitation and the laws of motion united the universe, no exceptions. Newton"s theories on the structure of the universe, newtonian approach was created underlying universality of natural laws, argued all matter even light was made up of extremely small particles. She owned one of the leading salons, used her passed husbands wealth to bring together interesting and important people in one setting, she supported the encyclopedie financially and socially. Christian books were banned and people were killed. This significance of this is that because of banks journey and discoveries as well as his new methods of natural history it allowed science and the government to be intertwined, which was a huge deal at this time. Invented the spinning jenny where dozens of threads worked at the same time, realized it was very inexpensive.