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  • A Captivating Guide to the Age of Reason, Including the Lives of Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Mary Somerville
  • Written by: Captivating History
  • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
  • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

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Age of Enlightenment

Written by: Captivating History
Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Age of Enlightenment, then pay attention....

The life of an eminent scientist during the Scientific Revolution and the ensuing Enlightenment was not easy. Ambitious people were killed in the name of the Catholic Church for their scientific and philosophical works, which were often viewed as heretical.

Major figures of the Enlightenment period include Voltaire, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Jefferson. These and many other great thinkers of the era influenced mass social upheaval in pursuit of equality and human rights, and many historians consider the culmination of these efforts to have been the French Revolution of 1789.

In Age of Enlightenment: A Captivating Guide to the Age of Reason, Including the Lives of Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Mary Somerville, you will discover topics such as

  • The Republic of Letters
  • Michel de Montaigne
  • Francis Bacon
  • Marie de Gournay
  • René Descartes
  • Bathsua Makin
  • Anna Maria Van Schurman
  • Dorothy Moore
  • Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
  • Robert Boyle
  • John Locke
  • Isaac Newton
  • England's Civil War
  • The Royal Society of London
  • Marie du Moulin
  • Conflict in the Royal Society
  • Charles-Louis de Secondat (Montesquieu)
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • David Hume
  • Adam Smith
  • The Boston Tea Party
  • Thomas Paine
  • The American Revolution
  • François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
  • Mary Sommerville
  • And much, much more!

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