| A | B |
|---|
| Copernicus | Polish cleric and astronomer who said everything revolved around the sun |
| Kepler | discovered the planets have an eliptical orbit and followed mathematical laws |
| Galilei | Italian student who made his own telescope and found the moon had a rough surface |
| Newton | law of gravity |
| Voltaire | tolerance, reason, freedom of religion and speech |
| Montesquieu | separation of powers |
| Rousseau | the only good government is formed by free people and guided by the "general will" |
| Mozart | began composing at age 5- Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni |
| Beethoven | started the Age of Romanticism |
| Frederick the Great | reformed Prussia |
| Catherine the Great | reformed Russia |
| Francis Bacon | the experimental method |
| Rene Descartes | analytical geometry- "I think, therefore I am" |
| Thomas Hobbes | in the state of nature life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" |
| John Locke | Natural Rights |
