Scientists and thinkers during the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason or the Scientific Revolution, produce revolutions in science, the arts, government, & religious tolerance.
René Descartes (1596-1650) “Cogito ergo sum” I think, therefore I am.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution (1550s – 1789)
An Increase in Reading
The Spread of the Enlightenment: “Must Read” Books of the Time
Pages from Diderot’s Encyclopédie
Pages from Diderot’s Encyclopédie
Pages from Diderot’s Encyclopédie
Subscriptions to Diderot’s Encyclopédie
(despite censorship attempts!!!)
Internet Censorship today…
“The Great Firewall of China” Rumored Internet Police of over 30,000 agents
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Friedrich Handel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (James DePriest)
Antonio Vivaldi (Shunsuke Sato)
Ludwig von Beethoven (Eric Owens)
“Classical” Music: The Sound of the Enlightenment
The Colonial “Philosophes”
John Adams�(1745-1826)
Ben Franklin�(1706-1790)
Thomas�Jefferson�(1743-1826)
…...…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…………...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson