The enlightenment's importance 17th Century prosecutors included the en
Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, the Frenchmen.
.englishmen.
Rene Descartes and the key natural philosophers.
of the scientific revolution, including Galileo
Galitei, Johannes Kepler and Gottfried wilhem Leibniz.
Its roots are usually traced to 168015 England 1
where in the span of 3
years
Isaac Newton
poplished his "principa mathematica" (10866) and
John Locke his essay conceming human
understanding" (168) - two works that
provided the Scientific, mathematical and
Philosophical toolkit for the Enlightenment's
major
advances.