THE ENLIGHTENMENT


Updated July 17, 2003

 GENERAL & COMPREHENSIVE SITES
ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM 
  THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
  SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE
  HWC, Early Modern Europe
  List of Primary Sources, History of Western Civilization, Knox - List of Essays, History of Western Civilization, Knox
  EyeWitness To The 17th Century - EyeWitness To The Eighteenth Century
  Lectures on Early Modern European History
  18th century history - the age of reason and change 
  Religious Wars, Science and a Birth of Freedom 
    Age of Enlightenment Review
   Voltaire: Personification of the Enlightenment
Romantic Chronology
    Eighteenth-Century Resources
The European Enlightenment
The European Enlightenment: Contents
Enlightenment - Historical background
   The Age of the Enlightenment
From the Reformation to the Present
    Windows to the Universe
People - Age of Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Lecture List for Western Civilization II  - access great lectures relating to the Enlightenment!
  18th Century Social Order: Peasants and Aristocrats


FATHERS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
John Locke & Isaac Newton

ISAAC NEWTON
Sir Isaac Newton - newton.org.uk
G.E.T. - The World of Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton on the Bible

JOHN LOCKE
John Locke
The Works of John Locke
John Locke (1632-1704), The Philosopher of Freedom.
John Locke, Philosopher of Liberty
John Locke
John Locke : A Short Biography
John Locke Room
Great Books Index - John Locke
Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke
John Locke: His American and Carolinian Legacy
John Locke (1632-1704)

JOHANNES KEPLER
Kepler's Laws with animation

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
What is Science?: Contents
  The Scientific Revolution
  The Scientific Revolution, 1543-1600 - 1600-1642 - 1642-1730
  THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
  The New Intellectual Order: Man, Nature and Society
The Scientific Revolution
  More Scientific Revolution 
  THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 
  HWC, Scientific Revolution 
Socratic Method & Scientific Method
Science During the Ages of Newton 
  SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION Past, Present, and Future
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Scientific Revolution
Art of Renaissance Science
Renaissance Inventions and Technology
Alchemy 
Institute and Museum of History of Science - Florence
Copernicus, Nicolas
The Galileo Project, Homepage
TIMELINE: Galileo
Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion
   Jesuits and the Sciences: 1540-1620
Jesuits and the Sciences, 1620-1659
Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation


PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL THEORY
Philosophers' gallery
  University of Waterloo Philosophy Electronic Library 
  The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 
Government, Law and Society: Political Theory
   Björn's Guide To Philosophy - Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
     Edmund Burke
Björn's Guide To Philosophy - Burke 
  Rene Descartes
Philosophers: Rene Descartes 
Great Books Index - Descartes
Denis Diderot
    Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Great Books Index - Thomas Hobbes 
Philosophers: Thomas Hobbes
  Lectures on Immanuel Kant
  Modern History Sourcebook: Montesquieu: Spirit of the Laws, 1748 - Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu 
Blaise Pascal
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Philosophers: Rousseau
Adam Smith
Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
Great Books Index - Voltaire
History House: Stories: Voltaire's Beatings(Part I)
History House: Stories: Voltaire gets jailed(Part 2)
History House: Stories: Voltaire is beaten(Part 3)
For more on philosophy, drop by my Other Subjects page!

AGE OF ABSOLUTISM
The Age of Absolutism
Absolutism in France
"Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century", essay by Tyler Jones
The Bourbons and the Enlightenment.
Absolutism


POLITICS AND WAR
The Rise of Vernacular Languages and Nation States and the Decline of the Roman Catholic Church
Great Books Index - Machiavelli - The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli
The Thirty Years War: Home Page
Religious Wars, Science and a Birth of Freedom

FASHIONS
The History of Costume - Text Index #2
Catalog of 18th Century Spectacles
For more, visit my HISTORY OF FASHION page.


DRAMA & LITERATURE
Restoration and 18th Century Literature
The William Blake Page
Burns Country - the official Robert Burns site
Samuel Johnson
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Home Page
Baroque Theatre 1600-1750
For more, visit my Literature and Drama page.

MUSIC
Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Music
Renaissance & Baroque Music Society
Baroque Music 1600-1750
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart @ Design House
List of Early English Operas
The History of the Ballet
For more, visit my Music page.

ART & ARCHITECTURE
ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Baroque Art
ART HISTORY RESOURCES: 18th-Century Art
  Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102 
  18th C. Rococo -- Overview
WebMuseum: Revolution and restoration (1740-1860)
NM's Creative Impulse.. Baroque 
Baroque Art
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)  
The William Blake Page - Paintings
Canaletto (1697-1768) 
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) - I know his work is frilly and pink, but he is still one of my favorite artists! I just love that girl on the swing!
CGFA- Jean Honoré Fragonard
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
WebMuseum: Gainsborough, Thomas
Hals, Frans
Bartolomi Esteban Murillo (1617-1682)
Rembrandt (Harmenzoon van Rijn) (1606-1669)
Rubens, Peter Paul
Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft (1632-1675)

For more info, visit my Art and Galleries page.

VARIOUS MISC. TOPICS
Agricultural Revolution - Fling the Teacher - Interactive game
James Cook Voyages
The 18th Century Town 
The Men That Made the Water Closet


FOR MORE INFO ON EVENTS DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT, PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING PAGES FROM MY WEBSITE:
From Colonies to Revolution
Great Britain & the UK
France
Russia
Western Civilization
Non-Western Cultures

FOR MORE INFO, CHECK OUT:
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Castles, Plague, Witch Trials

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