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What was Enlightenment? Explaining the Age of Reason
The search for knowledge never ends—but it started somewhere.
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Reign of Terror
Learn about the period of the French Revolution called the Reign of Terror.
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton, portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1689.
Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images
Voltaire
Voltaire, plaster sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon; in the Los Angeles County...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2004.5), collections.lacma.org.
Galileo
Galileo.
SCALA/Art Resource, New York
Montesquieu
Montesquieu.
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Voltaire
Voltaire, a statue of the great French writer created by Jean-Antoine Houdon,...
Scala/Art Resource, New York
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Courtesy of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva; photograph, Jean Arlaud
Declaration of Independence
In a painting by John Trumbull entitled Declaration of Independence, Thomas...
Yale University Art Gallery
Aristotle
A bust shows the ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, one of the greatest...
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon.
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philosophes: Encyclopédie
The philosophes created the multivolume Encyclopédie, their crowning achievement.
From Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, by Denis Diderot; Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 1751
John Locke
John Locke.
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