Question | Answer |
Professor at Cambridge, gravity, calculus, Principia | Isaac Newton |
Philosopher, founding father, wrote Second Treatise on Government | John Locke |
| Thomas Hobbes |
| Voltaire |
| Montesquieu |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Denis Diderot |
| Adam Smith |
| Mary Wolstonecraft |
Reason, logic, criticism & freedom of thought over dogma, blind faith and superstition. | Themes for the Enlightment |
From Poland, worked on a theory for 25 years, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres | Nicolas Copernicus |
From Denmark, data for the solar system | Tycho Brahe |
The laws of planetary motion | Johann Kepler |
Telescope,mountains on the moon, moons around Jupiter, wrote The Starry Messenger, condemned by the church. | Galileo Gallilei |
Inductive reasoning & Scientific method | Francis Bacon |
Accepted only what his reason said was true, "I think, therefore I am," analytic geometry | Rene Descartes |
Dissected bodies, heart the center, wrote a textbook | Vesalius |
Foundations of modern chemistry | Robert Boyle |
Used the microscope, bacteria | Antoni Leeuwenhoek |
Astronomer,discovered comets | Maria winkelmann |
Logarithms | Sir John Napier |
| Hermetic Doctrine |
| Joseph Addison |
| Pierre Bayle |
| Emilie du Chatelet |
| Joseph II |