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  2. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Another text influenced by Enlightenment values was Charles Burney's A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1776), which was a historical survey and an attempt to rationalize elements in music systematically over time. [184]

  3. List of intellectuals of the Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The Age of Enlightenment was a broad philosophical movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The traditional theological-political system that placed Scripture at the center, with religious authorities and monarchies claiming and enforcing their power by divine right, was challenged and overturned in the realm of ideas.

  4. American Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The American Enlightenment was influenced by the 17th- and 18th-century Age of Enlightenment in Europe and distinctive American philosophy. According to James MacGregor Burns, the spirit of the American Enlightenment was to give Enlightenment ideals a practical, useful form in the life of the nation and it’s people. [1]

  5. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .

  6. Science in the Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Table of astronomy, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. The history of science during the Age of Enlightenment traces developments in science and technology during the Age of Reason, when Enlightenment ideas and ideals were being disseminated across Europe and North America.

  7. Education in the Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Education in the Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

  8. Enlightened absolutism - Wikipedia

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    The concept originated during the Enlightenment period in the 18th and into the early 19th centuries. An enlightened absolutist is a non-democratic or authoritarian leader who exercises their political power based upon the principles of the Enlightenment. Enlightened monarchs distinguished themselves from ordinary rulers by claiming to rule for ...

  9. Category:Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    This category groups topics regarding the Age of Enlightenment, as well as: . Factors which figured in the political developments of the late 18th century and early 19th century, including the American Revolution and French Revolution.