Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason From Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern

During the 1600s, between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a revolutionary period which saw great advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics.

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