• moon@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Then it was only a matter of time before the ideas of men like Newton, Franklin, Voltaire and Rousseau spread like wildfire among the population

    Ah yes, the famous Newtonian peasant revolt

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      6 months ago

      Deciphering the laws of the universe was crucial to bring about The Age Of Enlightenment or Reason, and very much influenced the posture that its’ philosophers and political essayists adopted because of the works of men like Kepler, Newton, Descartes, etc.