Scientists
Nicholas Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilel
Sir Francis bacon
& Rene desecrates

NICHOLAS COPERNICUS

• Reasoned that the stars, the earth, & all the other planets revolved around the sun
• Heliocentric didn't explain why the planets orbited the way they did.
• studied planetary movements for more then 25 years

JOHANNES KEPLER

• Brilliant mathematican..
• He concluded mathematical laws govern planetary movement
• His law showed that Copernicus's basic ideas were true.

GALIEO GALILEI

• sat in a cathedral closely watching a chandelier swing on its chain
• he found out that a falling object accelerates at a fixed & predictable rate
• played a major role in the scientific revolution

SIR FRANCIS BACON

• English politician & writer
• believed that by better understanding the world scientists would improve netted knowledge
• the first scientist to receive a knighthood

RENE DESCRATES

• Developed analytical geometry
• Writer who spent half of his life in the Dutch republic
• Laid the foundation for the 17th century continental rationalism

Philosophers
John locke
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Wollstonecraft
& Hobbes

JOHN LOCKE

• English philosopher and physican
• Regarded as 1 of the most influential enlightment
• His theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern concepts of identity

VOLTAIRE

• French enlightenment writer, historian & philosopher
• Versatile writer, producing works in every literacy form
• Wrote more then 20,000 books and pamphlets

MONTESQUIEU

• famous for articulation of theory of seperation
• Achieved literacy success with publication
• Highly regarded in the British colonies

ROUSSEAU

• Successful composer of music who wrote 7 operas & music
• Genevan philosopher, writer & composer of the 18th century
• Political philosophy influenced the French Revolution

WOLLSTONECRAFT

• Involved in a# of societies & organizations in the colony
• Built a cottage on the north shore of Sydney harbor in 1820
• Appointed senior director of the "Bank of the New south wales"

HOBBES

• Founder of modern political philosophy
• Developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought
• Developed the right of the individual