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Francisco Suarez
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Francis Bacon
He was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author -
Galileo Galilei
Was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician[4] who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance -
Hugo Grotius
He laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law -
Rene Descartes
Was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic -
King Louis the Great
His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major country in European history -
Pierre Gassendi
Was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician -
Blaise Pascal
Was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher -
John Milton
Was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell -
Baruch Spinoza
Was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin -
Thomas Hobbes
As an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. -
Thomas Browne
Was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric -
John Locke
Was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism" -
Nicolas Malebranche
Was a French Oratorian priest and rationalist philosopher -
Isaac Newton
Widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution -
Johann Struensee
was a German doctor -
Nicolas De Largilliere
Was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state -
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
Was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. -
Georges Buffon
Best remembered for his Histoire naturelle, a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world. -
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815. The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. The goal was not simply to restore old boundaries, but to resize the main powers so they could balance each other off and remain at peace
