WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Age of Enlightenment was preceded by and closely associated with the Scientific Revolution. Earlier philosophers whose work influenced the Enlightenment included Francis Bacon and René Descartes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Early Enlightenment: 1685-1730 The Enlightenment’s important 17th-century precursors included the Englishmen Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, the Frenchman René Descartes and the key natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Detailed explanation-3: -Both Voltaire and Locke believed that freedom of thought was the key to a brighter future, and they agreed that basic rights should have been in place from birth as freedom was a necessity not an “earned privilege”.