• French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife?

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David Hume

• in 1745 William Cleghorn won a University of Edinburgh position after his rival, David Hume, was described by the town council as amoral, an atheist, and a sceptic?
• publishing an illustrated edition of David Hume's The History of England was a financial disaster for Robert Bowyer?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Friar Camilo Henríquez (pictured), a founding father of Chile and editor of Chile's first newspaper, was interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition for possessing banned Enlightenment philosophy, including books by Rousseau and Mercier?

Adam Smith

• Japanese historian and economist Taguchi Ukichi has often been referred to as the Adam Smith of Japan?