The Ideas that Made the Modern WorldEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 01.10.2008 - 408 Seiten The Ideas that made the Modern World is part of the Britannica Guide Series that offers a look into the people, philosophy, and history of the enlightenment. The Britannica Guides series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our time. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student, or traveler. |
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... body. Sight is troubled, delirium is born; reason, the slave of instinct, limits itself to serving the latter, and nature is satisfied. This passage is more truly representative of the Enlightenment attitude. INTRODUCTION xxi.
... body. Sight is troubled, delirium is born; reason, the slave of instinct, limits itself to serving the latter, and nature is satisfied. This passage is more truly representative of the Enlightenment attitude. INTRODUCTION xxi.
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... body, the accuracy of Jan Blaeuw in making maps and of Huygens in creating the new pendulum clock ± each represented that passion for discovery that put 17th-century Holland in a central position between the Re- naissance and the ...
... body, the accuracy of Jan Blaeuw in making maps and of Huygens in creating the new pendulum clock ± each represented that passion for discovery that put 17th-century Holland in a central position between the Re- naissance and the ...
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... body of law, articulated pre-eminently by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius in On the Law of War and Peace (1625). It was grounded not only in proven principles of private law but also in the Christian spirit, though it was strengthened by ...
... body of law, articulated pre-eminently by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius in On the Law of War and Peace (1625). It was grounded not only in proven principles of private law but also in the Christian spirit, though it was strengthened by ...
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... bodies with claims about the roles of mathematics and experiment in discovering facts about nature. Similarly, the account given by Sir Isaac Newton of his system of the natural world is punctuated by a defence of his methods and an ...
... bodies with claims about the roles of mathematics and experiment in discovering facts about nature. Similarly, the account given by Sir Isaac Newton of his system of the natural world is punctuated by a defence of his methods and an ...
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... Bodies do not fly off the Earth because they are not really revolving rapidly, even though their speed is high. Bodies fall to the base of towers from which they are dropped because they share with the tower the rotation of the Earth ...
... Bodies do not fly off the Earth because they are not really revolving rapidly, even though their speed is high. Bodies fall to the base of towers from which they are dropped because they share with the tower the rotation of the Earth ...
Inhalt
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3 Man and Evolution | 67 |
4 Culture and Education | 100 |
5 Economics and Industrial Revolution | 146 |
Enlightenment Politics | 169 |
7 Philosophy Ethics and Religion | 212 |
Thinkers Writers and Revolutionaries | 251 |
Extracts and Further Reading | 319 |
Further Reading | 355 |
Index | 357 |
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