Misc. List of Luminaries from the Scottish Enlightenment

This list is just the beginning of course.

Robert Simson: Mathematics

William Cullen: Chemistry, Medicine

Joseph Black: Chemistry, Physics

James Watt: Inventor, Mechanical Engineer

Francis Hutcheson: Philosopher

Adam Smith: Social Philosophy (Economics, Moral Philosophy)

Wikipedia's key figures in the Scottish Enlightenment:

* Robert Adam (1728-1792) architect
* James Anderson (1739-1808) agronomist, lawyer, amateur scientist
* Joseph Black (1728-1799) physicist and chemist, first to isolate carbon dioxide
* Hugh Blair (1718-1800) minister, author
* James Boswell (1740-1795) lawyer, author of Life of Johnson
* Thomas Brown (1778–1820), Scottish moral philosopher and philosopher of mind; jointly held the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University with Dugald Stewart
* James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) philosopher, judge, founder of modern comparative historical linguistics
* Robert Burns[9] (1759-1796) poet
* Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) founder of the Restoration Movement
* George Campbell (1719-1796) philosopher of language, theology, and rhetoric
* Sir John Clerk of Eldin (1728-1812) prolific artist, author of An Essay on Naval Tactics; great-uncle of James Clerk Maxwell
* William Cullen (1710-1790) physician, chemist, early medical researcher
* Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) considered the founder of sociology
* Andrew Fletcher (1653-1716) a forerunner of the Scottish Enlightenment,[10] writer, patriot, commissioner of Parliament of Scotland
* James Hall, 4th Baronet (1761-1832) geologist, geophysicist
* Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) philosopher, judge, historian
* David Hume (1711-1776) philosopher, historian, essayist
* Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) philosopher of metaphysics, logic, and ethics
* James Hutton[9][8] (1726–1797) founder of modern geology
* Sir John Leslie (1766-1832) mathematician, physicist, investigator of heat (thermodynamics)
* James Mill (1773-1836) late in the period - Father of John Stuart Mill.
* John Millar (1735-1801) philosopher, historian, historiographer
* John Playfair (1748-1819) mathematician, author of Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
* Allan Ramsay[11] (1686 - 1758) poet
* Henry Raeburn[7] (1726-1823) portrait painter
* Thomas Reid (1710-1796) philosopher, founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense
* William Robertson (1721-1793) one of the founders of modern historical research
* Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) lawyer, novelist, poet
* John Sinclair (1754 - 1835) politician, writer, the first person to use the word statistics in the English language
* William Smellie (1740-1795) editor of the first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica
* Adam Smith (1723-1790) whose The Wealth of Nations was the first modern treatise on economics
* Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) moral philosopher
* George Turnbull (1698-1748), theologian, philosopher and writer on education
* John Walker (naturalist) (1730-1803) professor of natural history
* James Watt (1736-1819) student of Joseph Black; engineer, inventor (see Watt steam engine)

Plus two who visited and corresponded with Edinburgh scholars[8]:

* Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) physician, botanist, philosopher, grandfather of Charles Darwin
* Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) polymath, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

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