But his new book moves forward from there to take in the whole of European culture from Cervantes to Dryden, from Descartes to Newton. And not just culture: commerce is included, and voyages of ...

In “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman ... and none has seen everything,” she wrote. “There is no book is so bad that ...

Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t undermine her as a woman.

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy, his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly ...

Edinburgh bibliophile Dr. William Zachs takes Paul Kennedy through his library of amazing books that were published in Scotland during the heyday of the Scottish Enlightenment. At the time ...

As ideas of Enlightenment percolated throughout Britain and Ireland, Irish theatrical practitioners - actors, managers, playwrights, critics and journalists - exploited a growing receptivity to Irish ...