Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0714127655
- ISBN-13
- 9780714127651
- Series
- Enlightenment
- Category
- History / Modern / 18th Century
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Authors
- Andrew Burnett, Kim Sloan
Description
The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past and other civilizations. Classification, collecting and deciphering were all important stages on the way to understanding the world and its inhabitants. The King's Library was built to house the books donated from the royal libraries of King George II and his grandson King George III, and they epitomize the interest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in scholarship and study. Aimed at the general reader and relevant to many academic diciplines, this book explores the ways people acquired new information, organized their ideas and reached their conclusions.
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