Voltaire
1694 – 1778 · France · Literature, Philosophy
Weaponised satire for tolerance and free expression.
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Who shaped Voltaire, and who they shaped
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- John Locke
1632 – 1704 · Politics, Philosophy
Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques carried Lockean toleration and empiricism into France.
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- Émilie du Châtelet
1706 – 1749 · Physics, Mathematics
Their Cirey laboratory produced her Newton translation and his popular Newtonianism together.
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