Definition. A vector field on two (or three) dimensional space is a function that assigns to each point (or) a two (or three dimensional) vector given by (or). That may not make a lot of sense, but most people do know what a vector field is, or at least theyâve seen a sketch of a vector field.
Montesquieu and Rousseau were two of the philosophes during the Enlightenment that had a profound impact on Europe and the world. Although they came from different backgrounds, one a nobleman, the other a commoner, both were dissatisfied with the French kings' rule.
Though it is typical of the Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth century (for example Voltaire in his Letters on the English Nation, 1734) to embrace Newton's physical system in preference to Descartes', Newton's system itself depends on Descartes' earlier work, a dependence of which Newton himself was aware.he Enlightenment is associated with the French thinkers of the mid-decades of the eighteenth century, the so-called â philosophes â, (Voltaire, Diderot, D'Alembert, Montesquieu, et cetera).