Scientific Revolution
1543 |
Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres |
1605 |
Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I |
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Bacon, On the Advancement of Learning |
1609 |
Kepler, On the Motion of Mars |
1610 |
Galileo, Starry Messenger |
1620 |
Bacon, Novum Organum |
1632 |
Galileo, Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World |
1637 |
Decartes, Discourse on Method |
1651 |
Hobbes, Leviathan |
1656-7 |
Pascal, Provincial Letters |
1662 |
Royal Society of England founded |
1666 |
French Royal Academy of Sciences founded |
1667 |
Milton, Paradise Lost |
1677 |
Spinoza, Ethics |
1678 |
Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress |
1687 |
Newton, Principia Mathematica |
1690 |
Locke, Treatises of Government and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
Enlightenment
1687 |
Newton, Principia Mathematica |
1690 |
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
1696 |
Toland, Christianity Not Mysterious |
1721 |
Montesquieu, Persian Letters |
1733 |
Voltaire, Letters on the English |
1738 |
Voltaire, Elements of the Philosophy of Newton |
1748 |
Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws |
1748 |
Hume, Inquiry into Human Nature |
1750 |
Rousseau, Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences |
1751 |
Diderot, First volume of the Encyclopedia: A Classified Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades |
1755 |
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality |
1759 |
Voltaire, Candide |
1762 |
Rousseau, The Social Contract and Émile: or On Education |
1763 |
Voltaire, Treatise on Toleration |
1764 |
Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary |
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Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments |
1774 |
Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther |
1776 |
Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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Bentham, Fragment on Government |
1779 |
Smith, Wealth of Nations |
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Lessing, Nathan the Wise |
1781 |
Last volume of Diderot’s Encyclopedia |
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Kant, Critique of Pure Reason |
1790 |
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France |
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Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Men |
1792 |
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women |
1795 |
Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind |
1798 |
Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population |
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