The Enlightenment

This book examines great past milestones and the complex mix of political, social, military and/or scientific trends and developments that contributed to their occurrence.

Explores how religion, its ideas, attitudes, practices, and institutions, interacted with science from the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution to the end of the nineteenth century.

Examines the political and scientific developments of the Enlightenment period between 1600 and 1800, and contains primary documents that describe the slave trade, the Ottoman Empire, the scientific revolution, and more.

Chronicles the history of human achievement, featuring articles that provide introductions to ten major historical eras, each followed by a chart that displays the period's most important scientific developments in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, and Africa and the Middle East, a time line that offers a view of scientific developments during the period, and two or more picture essays.