The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

The Age of Enlightenment brought us crucial inventions and discoveries in many areas including the circulation of blood, optics, scientific classification, calculus, the microscope, gravity and ...

"Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” looks at prints and drawings from the 18th century, a time of revolutions -- both political and idological. The exhibition encourages ...

Philip Dray’s new book, “Stealing God’s Thunder,” is an elegantly written reminder that the United States was born of the Age of Enlightenment, a product of men who lived in the heady ...

He was the single central figure identified with what is called The Age of Enlightenment, a period from about 1740 to 1789 when many thoughtful Europeans believed they had at last emerged from ...

The Age of Enlightenment certainly had no lack of women philosophers. Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) translated and explained Isaac Newton, while meditating on happiness. Madame du Deffand (1696 ...