Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment: Publications

Scientific Revolution

1543

Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

1605

Shakespeare, King Lear

Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I

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

Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments

1774

Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther

1776

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Bentham, Fragment on Government

1779

Smith, Wealth of Nations

Lessing, Nathan the Wise

1781

Last volume of Diderot’s Encyclopedia

Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

1790

Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

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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