Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment: British and Global Contexts 1409400581, 9781409400585

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this s

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Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment: British and Global Contexts
1409400581, 9781409400585

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this s

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Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment,

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