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| 304357656 | Wollstonecraft | English Enlightenment thinker who argued that the new political rights and freedoms should extend to women | 0 | |
| 304357657 | Frederick the Great | Claiming to be an enlightened despot, he ruled Prussia by building on the military and bureaucratic organization of his predecessors | 1 | |
| 304357658 | Copernicus | Polish monk who, in the 16th century, argued that the planets move around the sun rather than the earth | 2 | |
| 304357659 | Harvey | English physician who demonstrated the circular movement of the blood in animals, with the heart as the "central pumping station" | 3 | |
| 304357660 | Galileo | Italian scientist who publicized Copernicus' discoveries and added his own basic findings about planetary motions, which were condemned by the Church | 4 | |
| 304357661 | Diderot | Leader of the French Enlightenment who is best known for his editorial work on the Encyclopedie that compiled scientific and social scientific knowledge | 5 | |
| 304357663 | Louis XIV | Absolute monarch of France who built the sumptuous palace at Versailles and declared "I am the state" | 6 | |
| 304357665 | Descartes | Established the importance of a skeptical review of all received wisdom, arguing that human reason could develop laws explaining the workings of nature | 7 | |
| 304357667 | Smith | Scottish philosopher, and author of Wealth of Nations, who argued that government should avoid regulation of the economy in favor of market forces | 8 | |
| 304357669 | Kepler | Although from a poor family, he resolved basic issues of planetary motion by using the work of Copernicus and his own observations | 9 | |
| 304357671 | Newton | His Principia Mathematica, which set forth the basic principles of all motion (including the forces of gravity), was the capstone of the Scientific Revolution | 10 | |
| 304357673 | Locke | English thinker who argued that people could learn everything they needed to know through their senses and reason; faith was irrelevent | 11 |
