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Questioning Truth and Authority

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Developing a Modern Scientific View

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  • Nicholas Copernicus: The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
  • The Crime of Galileo: Indictment
  • Sir Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica
  • William Harvey William Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart
  • Francis Bacon: Preface to the Novum Organum
  • Réne Descartes: Discourse on Method

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    Supporting and Spreading Science

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  • Letters Patent Establishing the French Academy
  • Dr. John Wallis: The Origin of The Royal Society
  • Cardinal Robert Bellarmine: Letter on Galileo's Theories

    Laying the Foundations for the Enlightenment.

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  • Voltaire: On Francis Bacon
  • David Hume: On Miracles
  • Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu: Persian Letters, No. 13

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    The Enlightenment in Full Stride.

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  • Voltaire. Philosophical Dictionary
  • TJean La Rond D'Alembert: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia
  • Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration
  • Voltaire:  Letters on Newton
  • Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion
  • Reforming Society
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
  • Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu): The Spirit of the Laws
  • Adam Smith (1723-90): The Wealth of Nations
  • Daniel Defoe: On The Education of Women
  • Paris Salons in the 18th Century

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