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- johannes kepler
- German astronomer who made three laws to describe how the planets revolve around the sun
- isaac newton
- english physicist who made the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion
- fredrick the great (1713-1740)
- German ruler of Prussia and also the royal drill sergeant of the prussian army (made it the best in europe)
- eugene delacroix
- French romantic painter known for the way he uses his color
- volatire
- French philosopher, historian, satirist and dramatist who is often attacking injustice and intolerance
- galileo galilei
- Italian astronomer who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- montesquieu
- French philosopher and jurist & a outstanding figure of the early French Enlightenment
- william harvey
- English physiologist who discovered the circulation of blood in the human body
- john locke
- English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience
- oliver comwell
- A very smart military commander, devoted Puritan and arch-regicide
- johann sebastian bach
- German baroque organist that did mostly keyboard music and one of the greatest creators of western music
- Charles II
- King of England, Scotland & Ireland, whose return to the throne in 1660 marked the end of republican rule in England
- miguel de cervantes
- Spanish novelist and short-story writer who is best remembered for 'Don Quixote'
- wolfgang amadeus mozart
- prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy and a master of the classical style in all its forms of his time
- thomas hobbes
- English philosopher and political theorist best known for his book Leviathan
- louis XIV (1643-1715)
- king of France who expanded French influence in Europe and building The Palace of Versailles
- william and mary
- joint monarchs of England
- charles I
- King of England, Scotland and Ireland, whose conflicts with Parliament led to civil war and his eventual execution
- nicolaus copernicus
- Polish astronomer who advanced the theory that Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
- peter the great (1672-1725)
- the ruler of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government
- jean-jacques rousseau
- French philosopher and writer that believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society