The nature of modern-day scientific research can be traced ... emperor Napoleon Bonaparte arguably did more for the Revolution and the Enlightenment than Robespierre’s Committee of Public ...

Later, as church dominance waned, the Dark Ages were succeeded by the Renaissance (1400-1600), the Scientific Revolution (1543-1687) and the Enlightenment (1715-1789), allowing people to slake ...

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...

I can sketch out some pretty vague, broad answers about the Enlightenment ... the contrary evolution was often employed to to gird scientific racism. With those general knowns aside, I ...

Scientific enquiry and politics have always ... then that would be an Enlightenment worthy of the name. Dan Hind has worked in publishing since 1998 and is the author of two acclaimed books ...

Enlightenment-era pastors didn’t oppose modern science. They helped advance it. This essay was the first place winner of the 2017 CT Science Writing Contest. The scientific revolution hit ...

Demystifying the workings of the human body and living organisms—distinguishing living from dead—was just one of the areas of research that swept across Europe during the Enlightenment, the period of ...