Enlightenment

Reason over tradition

Newton writing laws for the heavens, Voltaire writing letters at Ferney, Jefferson writing a republic onto a blank page. The Enlightenment is where reason goes to work on everything at once — monarchy, scripture, slavery, the solar system — and comes out with a blueprint the next two centuries will spend arguing over. First-person biographies of the thinkers, founders, and revolutionaries who drafted the modern mind.

Timespan

1600 – 1800

Chronicles

26

Format

DRM-free EPUB

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