Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century

by Diana Donald and Frank O'Gorman

Book Overview

The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349519235
• ISBN13: 9781349519231
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"