| A | B |
|---|
| Diderot | Encyclopedie |
| Bentham | laws created for the common good and not for special interests, greatest good for greatest number |
| physiocrats | land is the only source of wealth, and agriculture increases that wealth; |
| Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations |
| Montesquieu | The Spirit of the Laws |
| Rousseau | "Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains!" |
| Voltaire | "I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it!" |
| Newton | posited a "clockwork universe" with his work |
| Bacon | formalised empirical, experimental research |
| Descartes | deductive reasoning |
| Kant | somethings you just know without having to prove (a priori) |
| Kepler | 3 laws of planetary motion |
| Galileo | validated Copernicus' work (sun is stationary / earth moves) |
| Harvey | circulation of blood |
| Leewenhoek | first to see 'little beasties' in microscope lens |
| Deism | God sets the earth in motion and then is rather uninvolved in human life |
| Locke | Two Treatises of Government |
| tabula rasa | people are a blank slate, influence comes later with life |
| ecrasez l'infame! | what Voltaire thought of organised religion |
| Beccaria | Crime and Punishment |
| Quesnay | leader of physiocrats |
| laissez faire | let economics do as it will without government or policy intervention |
| Hume | human ideas are merely result of physical senses. was an atheist |
| Cordorcet | Progress of the Human Mind |
| salons | encouraged enlightenment thinking and discussion |
