HISTORY 135C

Department of History
University of California, Irvine
 Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker

Week 5.  The Age of Enlightenment.

Supplementary readings for Week 5's lectures include excerpts from:

  • The World, or Treatise on Light (1629-1633), by René Descartes (1596-1650)
  • The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666), by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
  • Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757)
  • Micromegas:  A Tale of Interplanetary Travel (1752), by Voltaire (François Marie Arouet; 1694-1778)
  • An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750), by Thomas Wright (1711-1786)

 
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