"The Age of Reason": The European Enlightenment

Handouts (Word Documents)

• The Newtonian Worldview (2004)
  
• The Newtonian Revolution (1985)
  
• Spread of Newtonianism
  
• Different Portrayals of Newton
  
• Sir Isaac Newton, excerpts from Starseekers (1980)
  
• The Newtonian Revolution & the Enlightenment
  
  
• Denis Diderot, Encyclopedie and historical introduction
  
• John Locke, On Geography, history, geometry, astronomy, etc. (1693)
  
• John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education (1693)
  
• Anonymous, Treatise of the Three Impostors (1719)
  
• Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" (1729)
  
• Satire & Enlightenment: Jonathan Swift
  
• William Hogarth & 18th-century Art
  
• Ridicule (1995): Enlightenment in Film
  
• Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling (2003)
  
• The Enlightenment & Dueling
  
• Controversy between Christians & Deists (1749)