1. Age of Enlightenment 1689 John Locke publishes The Two Treatises of Government 1651 Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan David Hume publishes A Treatise of Human Nature 17401739 Dan Bernoulli publishes his book Hydrodynamica

2. Age of Enlightenment 1748 Montesquieu publishes The Spirit of Laws 1751-65 Diderot, along with a few other men, publishes The Encyclopedia 1750 Pietro Longhi paints a family learning geography, a sign of the people’s expanding intelligence. Rousseau publishes The Social Contract and Emile 1762

3. 1763 Voltaire publishes Treaties on Toleration January 10,1776 Common Sense is published by Thomas Paine. 1789 The French Revolution begins 1794 Thomas Paine finishes writing The Age of Reason. Condorcet finishes writing The Progress of the Human Mind.