Enlightment Inventors

By lolasoley
  • 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus
    Pole.
    He is known for: Heliocentrism, Copernicu's Law, Copernician Principian.
  • 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    English. He is known for being a writer, philosopher, layer, scientist and orator. He put the 5 senses in action.
  • 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    Italian. He is known for: Kinematics, Dynamics, Telescopic observational astronomy, Heliocentrism
  • 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
    German. He is known for: Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Kepler conjecture and Rudolphine Tables.

  • Thomas Hobbes

    Thomas Hobbes
    English. He is known for: being a Political philosopher, history, ethics, and geometry.

  • Jhon Locke

    Jhon Locke
    English. He is known for his interests in Metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, education and economics.

  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    English. He is known for: Newtonian mechanics, Universal gravitation, Calculus, Newton's laws of motion, Optics Binomial series and Principia Newton's method.

  • Montesquieu

    Montesquieu
    French. He is known for: Separation of state powers, executive, legislative and judicial classification of systems of government based on their principles.

  • Voltaire

    Voltaire
    French. He is known for being a Writer, philosopher, playwright and historian.

  • Denis Diderot

    Denis Diderot
    French. He is known for being a Science professor, literature, philosophy and art.

  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert

    Jean le Rond d'Alembert
    French. He is known for D'Alembert criterion, D'Alembert force, D'Alembert's principle of virtual work, D'Alembert's formula, D'Alembert equation, D'Alembert's principle, D'Alembert system, Tree of Diderot and d'Alembert, Fluid mechanics and Three-body problem.

  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith
    Scottish. He is known for: Classical economics, modern free market, division of labour and the "invisible hand".

  • Immanuel Kant

    Immanuel Kant
    German. He is known for: The Critique of Poor Reasons, The Book of Metaphysics, The Critique of Judgement.

  • Thomas Jeferson

    Thomas Jeferson
    American. He is known for being the third president of American and for stop the slaving in USA, he was a great thinker.

  • Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

    Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German. He is known for his works: the Faust; The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; Elective Affinities; "Prometheus"; Zur Farbenlehre; Italienische Reise and Westöstlicher Diwan.

  • Wolfgang Motzart

    Wolfgang Motzart
    German. He is known for being a a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.