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David Hartley
1705 – 1757
English

Philosopher and doctor. He tried to understand the human mind and morality in purely empirical terms but also defended a belief in God.

Contemporaries
1640–1716William Wycherley
1727–1759James Wolfe
1727–1797John Wilkes
1714–1770George Whitefield
1707–1788Charles Wesley
1717–1797Horace Walpole
1664–1726Sir John Vanbrugh
1732–1822William Tuke
1736–1812John Tooke
1634–1716Robert South
1750–1814Joanna Southcott
1651–1716John Somers
1671–1713Anthony Shaftesbury
1757–1818Sir Samuel Romilly
1627–1705John Ray
1735–1811Robert Raikes
1733–1804Joseph Priestley
1688–1744Alexander Pope
1644–1718William Penn
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1649–1705Titus Oates
1642–1727Isaac Newton
1745–1833Hannah More
1639–1709William Mompesson
?–1734Lady Abigail Masharn
1746–1794Sir William Jones
1709–1784Samuel Johnson
1749–1823Edward Jenner
fl. c. 1726–c. 1790John Howard
1720–1778James Hargreaves
1716–1771Thomas Gray
1751–1793Lord George Gordon
1756–1836William Godwin
1737–1794Edward Gibbon
1717–1779David Garrick
1749–1806Charles Fox
fl. c. 1707–c. 1754Henry Fielding
1620–1706John Evelyn
1743–1823Edmund Cartwright
1750–1822John Debrett
1631–1718Richard Cumberland
1728–1779James Cook
1675–1729Samuel Clarke
1680–1740Ephraim Chambers
1740–1824John Cartwright
1710–1773Alban Butler
1692–1752Joseph Butler
1715–1783Lancelot Brown
1757–1824Richard Brothers
1695–1755Edward Braddock
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1728–1809Matthew Boulton
1678–1751Henry Bolingbroke
1754–1817William Bligh
1757–1827William Blake
1723–1780Sir William Blackstone
1748–1832Jeremy Bentham
1743–1820Sir Joseph Banks
1732–1792Sir Richard Arkwright
1672–1719Joseph Addison