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Scientific Revolutions & Enlightenment

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Scientists

Nicolaus Copernicus

A Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe
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Johannes Kepler

Brilliant Mathematician

Galileo Galilei

Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
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Sir Francis Bacon

An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author
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RENE DESCARTES

A French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic
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PHILOSOPHERS

JOHN LOCKE

An English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism".

VOLTAIRE

French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.

MONTESQUIEU

A French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Age of Enlightenment

ROUSSEAU

A Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century

WOLLSTONECRAFT

An eighteenth-century English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights

HOBBES

English philosopher known for his work on political philosophy.
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