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Enlightenment & Encyclopedia
Reason, criticism and free debate become guiding principles; the Encyclopédie collects the knowledge of the age for all readers.
Open in the interactive tree →Diderot and d'Alembert published the Encyclopédie in 1751-1772 (28 volumes, around 70,000 articles), and the Encyclopaedia Britannica followed from 1768. Thinkers such as Kant, Voltaire and Locke argued for tolerance, separation of powers and trust in science, the foundation of constitutions and human rights.
Prerequisites
- Printing Press~1450
- Scientific Method~1600-1620
- Newspapers & the Public Sphere1605Newspapers and coffeehouses created the reading public that debated Enlightenment ideas
- Scientific Societies & Journals1665Academies and journals formed the network of correspondents behind the Enlightenment
- Newtonian Mechanics1687