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1 What is Enlightenment? History 104 / February 6, 2013

2 François Marie Arouet (1694-1778) a.k.a. Voltaire

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4 Disseminating knowledge: Voltaire Voltaire, Elements of the Philosophy of Newton (Amsterdam, 1738)

5 Disseminating knowledge: the Encyclopédia Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

6 First volume of the Encyclopédia (1751) “Encyclopedia, or reasoned dictionary of the sciences, arts, and methods” “By a society of people of letters”

7 39 volumes of the original Encyclopédia – available from online booksellers!

8 Examples of technical drawings from the Encyclopédia

9 Baron de Montesqueiu (1689-1785) Persian Letters (1721) The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

10 Adam Smith (1723-1790) The Wealth of Nations (1776)

11 Jean-Marie de Condorcet The Progress of the Human Mind (early 1790s)

12 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

13 Rousseau, Émile or On Education (Amsterdam, 1762) - the “noble savage”

14 Rousseau, The Social Contract (Amsterdam, 1762)

15 Voltaire, Candide (1759) Essay on Tolerance (1763)

16 G. F. Lessing (1729-1781) Nathan the Wise (1779)

17 The Baron d’Holbach The System of Nature (1780)

18 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) The Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

19 Initiation into a Masonic Lodge

20 Masonic symbols

21 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1791)

22 The Methodist revival: George Whitefield & John Wesley

23 Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)


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