Machiavelli's ideas had a profound impact on political leaders throughout the modern west, helped by the new technology of the printing press.
The importance of Machiavelli's influence is notable in many important figures in this endeavor, for example Bodin,[REF] Francis Bacon,[REF] Algernon Sidney,[REF] Harrington, John Milton,[REF] Spinoza,[REF] Rousseau, Hume,[REF] Edward Gibbon, and Adam Smith.