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Questioning Truth and Authority Images: Developing a Modern Scientific View Texts: Nicholas Copernicus: The Revolutions of the Heavenly BodiesThe Crime of Galileo: IndictmentSir Isaac Newton: Principia MathematicaWilliam Harvey William Harvey: On the Motion of the HeartFrancis Bacon: Preface to the Novum OrganumRéne Descartes: Discourse on MethodImages: Supporting and Spreading Science Texts: Letters Patent Establishing the French AcademyDr. John Wallis: The Origin of The Royal SocietyCardinal Robert Bellarmine: Letter on Galileo's TheoriesLaying the Foundations for the Enlightenment. Texts: Voltaire: On Francis BaconDavid Hume: On MiraclesCharles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu: Persian Letters, No. 13Images: The Enlightenment in Full Stride. Texts: Voltaire. Philosophical DictionaryTJean La Rond D'Alembert: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia
Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration
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Letters on NewtonThomas Paine (1737-1809): Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian ReligionReforming Society
Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social ContractCharles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu): The Spirit of the LawsAdam Smith (1723-90): The Wealth of NationsDaniel Defoe: On The Education of WomenParis Salons in the 18th CenturyImages:
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