Many of the discoveries which initiated the Scientific Revolution were greeted with great opposition because of their challenge to traditional and religious conceptions of the universe ...

Cambridge historian Herbert Butter-field last night called the seventeenth century scientific revolution "the turning ... thought to be original with the Enlightenment actualy have their roots ...

the creation of scientific approaches to the study of ethics and politics; the political theory of enlightened despotism; the intellectual origins of the French Revolution; intellectual encounters ...