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* launched idea of a divinely-ordered universe understandable by mathematics | * launched idea of a divinely-ordered universe understandable by mathematics | ||
=== Jonathan Swift === | |||
* 1667-1745 | |||
* Irish satirist and social and religious critic | |||
* most famous for "Gulliver Travels" and "A Modest Proposal" | |||
** both works "satirized" (made fun of) English society | |||
* "A Modest Proposal" criticized British treatment of the Irish people | |||
** most famously proposed the solution to Irish poverty | |||
*** for the Irish to sell their babies to rich Englishmen to eat as food' | |||
* his first satire, "A Tale of a Tub" criticized different Christian churches and orthodoxies | |||
** the story tells of a father who gave a tunic each of his sons, under the condition that they could not change or alter it in any way | |||
** as the tunics go out of style, the sons attempt to interpret the father's instructions in such a way as to allow them to alter it<br /> | |||
=== Voltaire === | === Voltaire === | ||
* 1694-1778 | * 1694-1778 | ||