| A | B |
| Nicolas Copernicus | Heliocentric Theory |
| Johannes Kepler | discovered planetary motion |
| Galileo Galilei | used the telescope to support heliocentric theory |
| Isaac Newton | formulated law of gravity |
| William Harvey | discovered circulation of blood |
| William and Mary | Glorious Revolution |
| Thomas Jefferson | Declaration of Independence |
| John Locke | Two Treaties of Government |
| Voltaire | Religious toleration should triumph |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Social Contract |
| Montesquieu | The Spirt of Laws |
| Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan |
| Louis XIV of France | palace of Versailles as symbol of power |
| Peter the Great | Westernized Russia |
| Absolute monarchies | concept of rule by divine right |