Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose ...
An intellectual movement which began in England in the seventeenth century, but then spread to have eventual influence over all sections of the world. The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an ...
Though it focuses on the eighteenth century, there could hardly be a timelier exhibit than Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment, which opened at UNC’s Ackland Art Museum last week and remains ...
The coil of human transformation is often wound tightly. And, as we have seen in the past, and once set in motion, insurmountable change is at hand. Certain epochs stand out, reshaping not just our ...
Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, “Muscles of the Back,” Plate 14 (detail) from “Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle” (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size) by ...
The history of trades -- Drawing: surveying the scene, engineering the machine -- Models: polite toys, useful tools -- Societies: participation, articulation -- Publications: rational explanation, ...
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