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| (1528)(Baldassare Castiglione) book that taught how to become a "renaissance man" | ||
| (1513)(Machiavelli) book directed at Lorenzo da Medici; describes how rulers gain, maintain, and increase power | ||
| (1516)(Thomas More) book that describes a perfect society with no monetary system, no war, and gold toilets | ||
| (1517)(Martin Luther) list of problems with the Catholic church | ||
| (1536)(John Calvin) collection of books outlining the Calvinist religion | ||
| (1548)(Ignatius Loyola) guide to achieving spiritual perfection | ||
| list of reading material banned by the Catholic church; established during the counter-reformation | ||
| term for the literature written during the reign of James I | ||
| English bible translated as a concession to puritans | ||
| (1598)(James I of England) book that justified divine right monarchy | ||
| (1651)(Thomas Hobbes) book that outlines the theory of the contract between people and government | ||
| (1689)(John Locke) book that talked of natural rights and the people's right to rebel if government does not protect these rights | ||
| (1605)(Miguel de Cervantes) novel that satirized Spanish nobility | ||
| (1543)(Copernicus) book that disproved the geocentric theory of astronomy | ||
| (1632)(Galileo) treatise that argued against Aristotelean physics and astronomy and supported Copernicus' theory of heliocentricity | ||
| (1687)(Isaac Newton) Newton's synthesis of ideas on physics | ||
| (1721)(Montesquieu) satire from the perspective of Persians visiting Paris | ||
| (1748)(Montesquieu) book that argued for separation of powers in government | ||
| (1751)(Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert) a synthesis of human knowledge | ||
| (1689)(John Locke) outlined his theory of natural rights and the social contract (the right to rebel) | ||
| (1762)(Jean-Jacques Rousseau) book that argues that government should follow the "general will" of the people | ||
| (1762)(Jean-Jacques Rousseau) book on child care and education | ||
| (1789)(Abbe Seiyes) argued for increased power for the third estate | ||
| (1790)(Edmund Burke) a conservative and reactionary attack on the French Revolution | ||
| (1776)(Adam Smith) book that outlines Smith's theories of capitalism | ||
| (1798)(Thomas Malthus) book that warned of overpopulation | ||
| (1848)(Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) book that outlined communism | ||
| (1876)(Karl Marx) Marx's "scientific" debunking of capitalism | ||
| (1859)(Charles Darwin) book that proposed Darwin's theory of evolution |
