Enlightenment Thinkers

Which Enlightenment thinker made the discovery of white light & laid the foundation for modern physical optics

• Isaac Newton
• Francis Bacon
• Condorcet
• Kant
• Descartes

Which Enlightenment thinker created the scientific method which involved gathering data, analyzing it, and performing experiments to observe the truth

• Hobbes

• Diderot

• Bacon

• Locke

• Condorcet

Which Enlightenment thinker was a French mathematician who wrote a book titled “Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Spirit”.

• Locke
• Condorcet
• Wollstonecraft
• Montesquieu
• Voltaire

Which Enlightenment Philosophe argued, “I think therefore I am.” The mind and body are separate beings.

• Catherine the Great
• Maria Theresa
• Rousseau
• Descartes
• Joseph II

Most famous works included the fictitious Lettres Philosophiques and Candide. Outspoken supporter of social reform.

• Voltaire
• Diderot
• Newton
• Bacon
• Saint-Simon

His first significant philosophical work was A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts.

• Newton
• Bacon
• Descartes
• Rousseau
• Locke

An advocate for women's rights. Wrote the Declaration of the Right of Woman in 1791.

• Rousseau
• Olympe de Goughes
• Bacon
• Diderot
• Hobbes

This Philosophe edited the "Encyclopédie" which aimed for people to teach themselves and “change the way people think.”

• Voltaire
• Newton
• Diderot
• Joseph II
• Napoleon

This thinker was best known for his book Leviathan, in which he explains the creation of the social contract theory.

• Kant
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Thomas Hobbes
• Diderot

This Enlightenment figure authored ¨A Vindication of the Rights of Women,¨ the earliest and most important for treatise advocating for the equality of women.

• Catherine the Great

• Madame de Pompadour

• Olympe de Goughes

• Mary Wollstonecraft