Lecture: Science and Sentiment
(The Enlightenment)

Yes, it's the theme to Masterpiece Theatre on PBS. It's also Rondeau by Jean Joseph Mouret (1729).

1. Scientific Revolution	2. From Science to Enlightenment
3. Music	4. The Salons
5. Fashion	6. Sexuality
7. Literature	8. Crime That Paid

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1761)

Voltaire at Ferney
Notice the neatly organized garden, indicative of the rationalist mindset.

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