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Anchor, Robert. The Enlightenment Tradition. Berkeley CA: University of California Press,

Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning, and New Atlantis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. Edited by Arthur Johnston. Develops the idea that "knowledge is power"—human mastery over nature. Originally published in 1627.

Bayle, Pierre. Historical Dictionary. London: Routledge, 1997. Biographical articles exposing the past.

Brown, Stuart C. Philosophers of the Enlightenment. Hassocks Harvester Press, 1979.

Cranston, Maurice. John Locke: A Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Originally published in 1951.

Descartes, René. A Discourse on Method: Meditations on the First Philosophy Principles of Philosophy. London: Everyman's Library, 1986. Translated by John Veitch. Mathematical logic applied to mysteries of the world. Originally published in 1637.

Diderot, Denis. Selected Philosophical Writings. London: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: an Interpretation: the Science of Freedom. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1996.

Gilson, David, and Smith, Martin, eds. Essays on Montesquieu and on the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1988.

Grimsley, Ronald, Garland, Henry B., et al, eds. The Age of Enlightenment, 1715-1789. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.

Grimsley, Ronald. The Philosophy of Rousseau. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Hall, A. Rupert. From Galileo to Newton, 1630-1720. London: Fontana, 1970.

Hampson, Norman. The Enlightenment. London: Penguin, 1990.

Hume, David. Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Rational and experimental methods—“the science of man”.

Jenkins, Joan. The Enlightenment Legacy of David Hume. Denton, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989.

Labrousse, Elisabeth. Bayle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Translated by Denys Potts. Classic criticism and interpretation of his work.

Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding. London: Dent (Everyman), 1993. Abridged and edited by John W. Yolton. Intended "to inquire into the origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge; together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent". Originally published in 1690.

Manuel, Frank E. A Portrait of Isaac Newton. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Newton, Isaac. Mathematical Principles of National Philosophy. London: Dawsons, 1969. Translated by Robert Thorp from Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1627. Seventeenth century quest for truth, exploring replacement of God in nature with logic.

Porter, Roy, and Teich, Mikuláš, eds. The Enlightenment in National Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Porter, Roy. Edward Gibbon: Making History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Of the Social Contract, or, Principles of Political Right and Discourse on Political Economy. New York and London: Harper & Row, 1984. Translated by Charles M. Sherover. Originally published in 1753.

Voltaire. Candide. London: Everyman’s Library, 1992.

Voltaire. Philosophical Dictionary. London: Penguin, 1972.

Wade, Ira O. The Intellectual Development of Voltaire. London: Kennikat Press, 1972. Alternative title, Voltaire and ‘Candide’: a Study in the Fusion of History, Art and Philosophy.

Wade, Ira O. The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Willey, Basil. The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion. London: Routledge &Kegan Paul, 1979. Originally published in 1934.