Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center, and not earth.

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• John Locke

• Wollstonecraft

had a positive view of humans, all people have natural rights and it's the job of government to protect these, government's power comes from people

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Copernicus

(1694-1778) French philosopher. He believed that freedom of speech was the best weapon against bad government. He also spoke out against the corruption of the French government, and the intolerance of the Catholic Church.

• Galileo

• Baron Montesquieu

• (Francois-Marie Arouet) Voltaire

• John Locke

(1564-1642) An Italian who provided more evidence for and questioned if the heavens really were perfect. He invented a new telescope, studied the sky, and published what he discovered. Because his work provided evidence that the Bible was was arrested and ended up on house arrest for the rest of his life.

• Isaac Newton

• (Francois-Marie Arouet) Voltaire

• Baron Montesquieu

• Galileo

English philosopher and political theorist best known for his book Leviathan (1651), in which he argues that the only way to secure civil society is through universal submission to the absolute authority of a sovereign.

• Baron Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Adam Smith

Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, , and others exchanged ideas

• rights

• Salons

• Cafes

• Pubs

The natural rights identified by Locke

• Right to Vote

• Happiness

• Enlightenment

• Life, Liberty, Property

Discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented Calculus

• Johannes Keplar

• Copernicus

• Hobbes

• Isaac Newton

Father of Classical laissez faire capitalist Economics

• Adam Smith

• Johannes Keplar

• Isaac Newton

• Thomas Hobbes

The scientist who said the orbits of the planets around the sun are elliptical in shape

• Enlightened Despot

• Baron Montesquieu

• Johannes Keplar

• Isaac Newton