Age of Enlightenment

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John Locke was a 17th century English political theorist. He believed that that nobody had any natural political authority over anyone else. Political authority is granted through consent.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German philosopher and mathematician

Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function.He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory.

Joseph Banks 1773 Reynolds-He is credited with introducing the eucalyptus, acacia, and the genus named after him, Banksia, to the Western world. Approximately 80 species of plants bear his name. He was the leading founder of the African Association and a member of the Society of Dilettanti which helped to establish the Royal Academy.

Bernoulli was the son of Jean Bernoulli , who founded a dynasty of highly talented mathematicians. Daniel Bernoulli became professor of mathematics at St Petersburg, Russia, in 1725. He went on to...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat and writer. Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, as wife to the British ambassador, which have been described by Billie Melman as “the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient”.

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Ignoring the racial hierarchy that was born of the Enlightenment underestimates its influence.

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Lady Mary returned to the West with knowledge of the Ottoman practice of inoculation against smallpox, known as variolation. In the 1790s, Edward Jenner developed a safer method, vaccination. In 1727 her husband inherited Wortley Hall, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, and commissioned a major remodelling of the house in 1742.

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German explorer Alexander von Humboldt showed his disgust for slavery and often criticized the colonial policies.