How The Transit Of Venus Helped Unlock The Universe : The Two-Way Less than 250 years ago, the brightest minds of the Enlightenment were stumped over how far the Earth is from the sun. The ...

The Enlightenment intellectual Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) ... Both assumed a classical, deterministic, matter-in-motion view of the universe, and believed that, ...

The accounts of these early stirrings of Enlightenment thought, amid the ruins of classical and Christian certainties, are the strongest parts of the book, depicting a world on the brink of ...

Charleston physician Kent Stock has pondered meaning of life, and as he approaches 60 years old he says answer is to create ...

We mean, Yumi Sakugawa is often drawing enlightenment of one form or another, and now Adams Media has released her new Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With the Universe, and the artist will be ...

The critics are convincing that the Enlightenment’s champions were misguided to believe that we will ever identify universal principles of justice and neutral outcomes in politics. But I argue that to ...