The Enlightenment Period (1715 - 1789)

• Age of Reason


  was characterized by radical reorientation in science, which emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
• The Enlightenment ultimately gave way to 19th-century Romanticism
• Philosophers that headlined the Enlightenment

  (1) Galileo Galilei

  (2) Johannes Kepler

  (3) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Isaac Newton


  Published "Principia Mathematica" in 1686
• John Locke


  Published "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" in 1689.