The first reason as to why the British enlightenment was foundational was the …show more content…
The British enlightenment brought many important enlightened thinkers who changed the world such as Isaac Newton, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Francis Bacon. Many thinkers differed greatly and opposed each other's ideas such as John Locke who “Diametrically opposed the pessimistic Hobbes” (What is the English enlightenment). Francis Bacon was one of the earliest and most influential enlightenment thinkers. He was known as the father of the scientific method, which was a new turn in the framework for science. His philosophies and discoveries would soon be the foundation in which other thinkers would build upon. Isaac Newton, another physicist and mathematician, made new discoveries in the laws of motion and universal gravitation, discoveries which we today still widely recognize. Another big thinker was Thomas Hobbes, who was an influential political philosopher who wrote the leviathan and was a basis for