Before revision: Originating in the 17th century , it was sparked by philosophers Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, Voltaire, Francis Hutcheson, George Berkeley, David Hume and physicists Galileo and astronomers and physicists such as Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Galileo.
After revision: Originating in the 17th centuries , it was sparked by philosophers Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, René Descartes, Benedict Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Thomas Hobbes and John Lockelate 16th and earlysuch as and astronomers and physicists such as Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Galileo.