Enlightenment Years
1550-1700
1685-1815
1688-1689
John Locke's most famous book
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Leviathan
Emile
Thomas Hobbes' book
Declaration of Indepene
Voltaire is known for his belief in
Religious toleration
Separation of power
Aristotelian system
Hobbes wanted an absolute monarchy
Hobbes thought people were evil by nature
Voltaire believed in a direct democarcy
Rosseau's famous work
Social Contract
Constitution
Believed in skepticism
Hobbes
Locke
Voltaire
Kant
Kant didn´t believe in reason
Wrote the Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu
Main idea of Montesquieu
Skepticism
Separation of powers
Absolute monarchy
Classic Liberalism
Main writer of the US Declaration of Independence
Jefferson
Franklin
Main believer in classic liberalism
Marx
Egels
B. Franklin helped with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution
Scientific Revolution Years
Made the Laws of Planetary Motion
Locker
Hobbbes
Kepler
Newton
Invented the telescope
Galileo
Bacon
The Laws of Planetary Motion say the Earth orbits in eliptical shape
Galileo refuted the Aristotelian system
Newton did not discover gravity
Started the Scientific Revolution and proposed the Heliocentric Theory
Copernicus
Harvey
Founder or modern biology and of human anatomy
Versalius
Harvey said that
Blood circulation is continous
Our circulatory system has many steps
Pascal worked on
Mathematics
Biology
Science
Physics
Hooke and Boyle discovered
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Helium
Hydrogen
Descartes is the father of modern philosophy and analytic geometry
Scientific method founder
Boyle
Pascal
The main ideas of the Scientific Revolution are belief in the laws of nature and means of reason
Capitalism representative
Adam Smith