Age of Enlightenment (ePub)

The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th to 19th centuries. The Enlightenment emerged out of a European intellectual and scholarly movement known as Renaissance humanism.
Index
Chapter 1 : Short History of Age of Enlightenment
Chapter : 2 Philosophy
Chapter 3 : Science in the Age of Enlightenment
3.1 Societies and Academies
3.2 Periodicals
3.3 Encyclopedias and dictionaries
3.4 Popularization of science
3.5 British coffeehouses
3.6 Public lectures
3.7 Popular science in print
3.8 Women in science
3.9 Disciplines
3.10 Chemistry
Chapter 4 : Sociology, economics and law
Chapter 5 : Politics

5.1 Theories of government
5.2 Enlightened absolutism
5.3 French Revolution
Chapter 6 : Religion
6.1 Separation of chapel and state
Chapter 7 : National variations
7.1 Great Britain
7.2 Scottish Enlightenment
7.3 American Enlightenment
7.4 German states
7.5 History of Portugal
Chapter 8 : Historiography
8.1 Definition
8.2 Time span
8.3 Modern study
Chapter 9 : Society and culture
9.1 Social and cultural implications in the arts
Chapter 10 : Dissemination of ideas
10.1 The Republic of Letters
10.2 The book industry
10.3 Natural history
10.4 Scientific and literary journals
10.5 Encyclopedias and dictionaries
10.6 Popularization of science
10.7 Schools and universities
10.8 Learned academies
Chapter 11 : Historiography of the salon
11.1 Periodisation of the salon
11.2 Conversation, content and the type of the salon
11.3 The salon and the 'open sphere'
11.4 Debates encompassing ladies and the salon
11.5 Coffeehouses
11.6 Debating societies
11.7 Masonic lodges
11.8 Art