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What is Enlightenment? History 104 / February 6, 2013. François Marie Arouet (1694-1778) a.k.a. Voltaire. Disseminating knowledge: Voltaire. Voltaire, Elements of the Philosophy of Newton (Amsterdam, 1738). Disseminating knowledge: the Encyclopédia. Denis Diderot (1713-1784).
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Disseminating knowledge: Voltaire Voltaire, Elements of the Philosophy of Newton (Amsterdam, 1738)
Disseminating knowledge: the Encyclopédia Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
First volume of the Encyclopédia (1751) “Encyclopedia, or reasoned dictionary of the sciences, arts, and methods” “By a society of people of letters”
39 volumes of the original Encyclopédia – available from online booksellers!
Baron de Montesqueiu(1689-1785)Persian Letters(1721)The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
Jean-Marie de CondorcetThe Progress of the Human Mind(early 1790s)
Rousseau, Émile orOn Education(Amsterdam, 1762)- the “noble savage”
Mary Wollstonecraft(1759-1797)A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1791)