Influences

Democritus

Epicurus

Lucretius

Plotinus

Kabbalist Text

Maimonides

Nicolas of Cusa

Duns Scotus

Rene Descartes, Founder of Modern Philosophy and a Great Influence on Spinoza

Letter from Spinoza to the German Philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Giordano Bruno, Philosopher and Advocate of Copernican Astronomy as Well as an Infinite Universe
Found Guilty of Heresy by the Catholic Inquisition and Burned at the Stake

Galileo, Founder of Modern Mathematical Physics and Advocate of Copernican Astronomy
Found Guilty of Heresy by the Inquisition, and Kept under House Arrest after He Recanted

Hobbes' Leviathan

Machiavelli