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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