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Thomas Hobbes
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He was a libertarian.
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Adam Smith
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Founder of Economics, Capitalism, and Free Trade.
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Robert Boyle
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Founded "Boyle's Law" : Volume of a gas varies with the pressure exerted on it.
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Known for his laws of : optics,gravity, motion,inertia,math, and calculus.
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Henry the 8th
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Had lots of wives, killed most of them.
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Louis the 16th
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Married Marie Antoinette.
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John Locke
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Known as the father of classical liberalism.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Signed the Decolaration of independance.
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Voltaire
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Was a french enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher.
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Baron de Montesquieu
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A french social commentador and political thinker.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French
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Peter the great
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ruled the Tsardom of Russia
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Catherine the Great
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Empress of Russia, was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia
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Galileo
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Made the first telescope.
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William Blackstone
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was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century.
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