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Made books more avabiel to people bt the mass prouduction from the printing press. The fmajor book that was printed was the bible and made avaible for people to have their own copy and to intepert.
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Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), John Locke (1632–1704), Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), physicist Isaac Newton (1643–1727), and philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778) created the enlightment age philosphys and thinking
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Creation of Coffehouses started a place were indiviulas could discuss and debate the social and political issues of the time
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The editor of the Histoire de la République des Lettres en France described it as "In the midst of all the governments that decide the fate of men; in the bosom of so many states, the majority of them despotic ... there exists a certain realm which holds sway only over the mind ... that we honour with the name Republic, because it preserves a measure of independence, and because it is almost its essence to be free. It is the realm of talent and of thought."
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The first journal appeared in 1665 the Journal des Sçavans
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included "royal propaganda, philosophical battles, and critical ruminations on the social and political institutions of the Old Regime."
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Beofr the 1750 people read a small amount of book repeatdly and with large groups such as the bible but after 1750 people strted getting more books and started reading individuallly. This created different thoughts on the same piece of literature and a divide iin thinking.
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edited by Denis Diderot (1713–1784) with contributions by hundreds of leading philosophes (intellectuals) such as Voltaire (1694–1778), Rousseau (1712–1778) and Montesquieu (1689–1755).
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The founding fathers of our country got together to make a letter for the jing of england that they had enough of them limiting their rights.
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Was made to debate the social and poitical issues at the time and was very present in the public sphere of England.
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America suceeds in gaining there independence from Britian and inspires other countries to do the same against imperial countries of Europe.
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"Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?" ("Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?")
