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  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Published “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium” in 1543.
    Faced resistance from the Catholic Church.
    Born on February 19, 1473, in Toruń, Poland
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon

    He idolized Pablo Picasso
    His mother was a flapper
    He was a cinephile
  • Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo was never married, but he did start a family
    The scientist dropped out of university
    Galileo turned the telescope to the skies.
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes

    Descartes never married, but he fathered a child in 1635 with Helena Jans van der Strom creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician.
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton has two birthdays
    He died at age 84
    An apple never actually fell on his head
    Isaac almost gave up on his education
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    John Locke was an English philosopher and physician. ...
    He is known for his influential works on political philosophy and epistemology. ...
    His most famous work is “Two Treatises of Government”
  • montesquieu

    montesquieu

    was an English philosopher and physician. ...
    He is known for his influential works on political philosophy and epistemology. ...
    His most famous work is “Two Treatises of Government” ...
  • Denis Diderot

    Denis Diderot

    he did not enter the church, and he later became an atheist and embraced rationalism. Denis Diderot | Biography, Philosophy, Works, Beliefs ...
    Diderot was born in 1713, the son of a master cutler. Although tonsured in 1726,
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    He basically wrote the first autobiography. ...
    He secretly helped writing the Encyclopédie. ...
    He tried to get his musical work in the Académie. ...
  • Voltaire

    Voltaire

    The origins of his famous pen name are unclear. ...
    He was imprisoned in the Bastille for nearly a year. ...
    He became hugely wealthy by exploiting a flaw in the French lottery. ...
  • James Watt

    James Watt

    was educated at home for most of his early years
    James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736
    He was not a healthy child
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith

    Adam Smith FRSA was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • George Washington

    George Washington

    Washington was mostly self-educated. ...
    He was fearless in battle. ...
    Washington's bold actions saved the American Revolution, twice. ...
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States
    He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
    Jefferson was a polymath
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    His grave is unknown to this day
    His full name was “Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart"
    He wrote his first composition at just 4 years old.
  • Maximillien Robespierre

    Maximillien Robespierre

    he was 36 when he died
    he started the rain of taroer
  • Miguel Hidalgo

    Miguel Hidalgo

    Mexican priest, teacher, and freethinker He is known as the Father of the Homeland for being one of the starters of the Mexican independence movement. He had both an academic and religious career. He got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and theology.
  • Simon Bolivar

    Simon Bolivar

    he died of tuberculosis
    Bolivar hoped to unite all South American countries into one nation.Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela