| A | B |
| Voltaire | satirical philosopher who advocated tolerance and freedom of religion |
| John Locke | political thinker advocating self-government |
| Montesquieu | philosophe who advocated separation of powers |
| Thomas Hobbes | political thinker who argued in favor of strong governments |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | argued that civilization corrupts human goodness |
| Denis Diderot | edited and published first encyclopedia |
| Paris | center of early Enlightenment |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | astronomer who proposed the heliocentric theory |
| Galileo Galilei | invented the first telescope |