Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Britain

In the shadow of the Enlightenment. Occultism and Renaissance science in eighteenth-century America

Allegory and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century

In a reading of William Blake's frontispiece to “There is no Natural Religion” that draws largely on the history of the allegorical mode, I offer a narrative that explores the creative ways in which Blake illuminated his ideas about the value of Enlightenment thought.

The manuscript lecture-notes of Alexander Monro primus (1697-1767).

INTRODUCTION In the latter halfofthe eighteenth century, Edinburgh bycommon consent possessed the leading medical school in the English-speaking world. To it flocked students from all over Britain and her colonies in North America and the Caribbean. In the 1770s, halfa century after the foundation ofthe Faculty, they came to hear men ofthe calibre ofJoseph Black, William Cullen, and Alexander M...

A guide to the archives and manuscripts of The Royal Society

thinkers, the "science of man" meant exactly that and did not include women; and that "nature" provided the foundation of difference, not its erasure. Additional exploration of the meaning of "science" is provided by Phillip Sloan in his magisterial essay on the natural history of man. He concentrates on Linnaeus and Buffon, practising scientists with very different views of what constituted hu...

The Ottoman East and the ‘Moral Geography’ of Europe's Enlightenment

European perceptions of the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century have often been read through the prism of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1748). His ‘moral geography’ depicted a despotic and decayed Islamic Ottoman polity in contrast to the dynamism displayed in European states. Montesquieu’s comparisons and contrasts between the Ottoman East and Europe appear to support Edwa...