https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/Recent content in The Age of Reason on Teddy Rook Bookhttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpghttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpgHugoenhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/gilbert-on-the-loadstone/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/gilbert-on-the-loadstone/Experiments with magnets and a small magnetic globe show that the Earth itself is a great magnet. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/bacon-advancement-of-learning/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/bacon-advancement-of-learning/A survey of everything people know, what is missing, and why learning is worth the effort. 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The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/bacon-new-atlantis/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/bacon-new-atlantis/Sailors find an island whose wise men run a great house of research for the good of all. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/harvey-motion-of-the-heart/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/harvey-motion-of-the-heart/The heart is a pump, and the same blood goes round and round: proved by experiment and simple arithmetic. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/descartes-discourse-on-method/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/descartes-discourse-on-method/Four rules for thinking clearly, 'I think, therefore I am', and a plan for a science built from the ground up. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/descartes-geometry/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/descartes-geometry/Algebra meets geometry: lengths become numbers and curves become equations, the road to the graphs every student draws. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/galileo-two-new-sciences/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/galileo-two-new-sciences/Three friends talk through the strength of beams and the laws of falling bodies, tested on inclined planes. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/harvey-generation-of-animals/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/harvey-generation-of-animals/How a chick takes shape day by day inside the egg, and Harvey's claim that all animals begin from an egg. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/descartes-meditations/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/descartes-meditations/Six days of thinking: doubt everything, find what can't be doubted, and rebuild knowledge from there. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/hobbes-leviathan/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/hobbes-leviathan/Without government, life would be a war of all against all; so people agree to a strong sovereign. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/spinoza-ethics/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/spinoza-ethics/Philosophy set out like Euclid, with definitions and proofs, on God, nature, the emotions and freedom. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/pascal-scientific-treatises/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/pascal-scientific-treatises/A barometer carried up a mountain, the push of water in a closed vessel, and the triangle of numbers. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/pascal-provincial-letters/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/pascal-provincial-letters/Eighteen witty open letters in a religious dispute of his day, which helped shape French prose. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/pascal-pensees/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/pascal-pensees/Notes for a defense of the Christian faith: the thinking reed, the wager and 'the heart has its reasons.' The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/milton-paradise-lost/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/milton-paradise-lost/An epic of Satan's rebellion and the fall of Adam and Eve, written by a blind poet to 'justify the ways of God to men.' The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/milton-areopagitica-and-poems/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/milton-areopagitica-and-poems/A famous argument against censoring books before they are printed, with Milton's shorter poems and his drama of Samson. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/moliere-comedies/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/moliere-comedies/A hypocrite, a miser, a snob and a man who thinks he is sick: comedy that laughs people out of their follies. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/racine-phaedra/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/racine-phaedra/French tragedy at its strictest: one day, one place, and passions that duty can't master. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/huygens-treatise-on-light/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/huygens-treatise-on-light/Light as a wave spreading through space, each point sending out its own small wavelets. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/newton-principia/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/newton-principia/Three laws of motion and one law of gravity explain falling apples, the tides and the orbits of the planets. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/newton-optics/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-age-of-reason/newton-optics/White light split by a prism into colors and put back together, and the questions Newton left for later science. The Age of Reason · Great Books Ladder