Enlightening the World: Encyclopédie, The Book That Changed the Course of History by Philipp Blom

Enlightening the World: Encyclopédie, The Book That Changed the Course of History

Philipp Blom

416 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative medium-paced

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In 1777 several of the world's greatest men gathered together to create a book that would champion rationalism, free thinking, and secularism--the Encyclopédie. Such leading minds as Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire conceived of a work that would t...

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