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| Thomas Hobbes | 1588-1679 | 
politics | history, law | Leviathan | 
François | de La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680
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moralist | affection, friendship, love, loyalty | Memoirs; Maximes |  Blaise | Pascal 1623-1662
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natural philosophy | mathematics, physics | Traité du triangle arithmétique |  Margaret | Cavendish 1623-1673
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philosophy, poetry | gender, power, manners | Poems and Fancies; | Observations upon Experimental Philosophy; Philosophical Letters
| Robert | Boyle 1627-1691
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natural philosophy, theology | chemistry, physics | The Sceptical Chymist; | The Christian Virtuoso
| Baruch | Spinoza 18632-1677
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epistemology | politics, ethics | Tractatus_Theologico-Politicus; | Ethics  John | Locke 1632-1704
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epistemology | politics, economics, identity and self | Two Treatises of Government; | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Some Thoughts Concerning Education  Isaac | Newton 1642-1726
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physics, theology | astronomy, alchemy, optics | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; | The System of the World
| Pierre | Bayle 1647-1706
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philosophy, lexicography | toleration, skepticism | Reflections on the Comet; | Historical and Critical Dictionary
| Gottfried | Leibniz 1646–1716
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philosophy, mathematics, theology | politics, law, history, ethics | New Essays on Human Understanding; | Monadology; Théodicée 
George | Berkeley 1685-1753
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philosophy | immaterialism, perception, morals | A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; | The Analyst
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