ゴットホルト・エフライム・レッシング
Two other distinguished 18th-century philosophers who wrote at length concerning the distinction between moderns and ancients are Giambattista Vico (cf. e.g. his "De nostri temporis studiorum ratione") and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (for whom the moderns see 'more,' but the ancients see 'better').