16 – The Age of Reason

by ProfDave, ©2022 “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium” (“On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”) by Copernicus, first printed in 1543 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) (May 10, 2022) — What was early modern Europe like?  What were things like in 1648?  What were the physical consequences of the Renaissance and Reformation?  First, the relative unanimity of […]