Episode. 987. The Age of Enlightenment, Francis Bacon.

A description of 5 years of furniture-making training at one of the most infamous trade schools in the world, a few favorite professors and some opportunities that followed.

Mary becomes Queen of England and creates blue and white delftware rooms that were hidden from sight into her eutopia.

The assembling and eventual unveiling of Queen Mary’s delftware collection.

Descartes attempted to study false proofs within the scientific method. Bathsua Makin, she founded a school dedicated to the education of society women.

By the early 19th century British industrialization began to decline opening technological advancements and markets to the rest of the world.

Gournay was unique for her time, a woman writing essays. Much of her later focused on translation of classic literature dealing with philosophical truths.

Bacon developed the Baconian method, a reductionist methodology, stating the key to making scientific discovery was deduction and careful. research

Montaigne was an intellectual and essayist who grew up disappointed by the decline of the European Renaissance.

The republic of letters was a long distance network that connected intellectuals in Europe and America throughout the centuries of the enlightenment.

Major social thinkers of the day influenced mass social upheaval in pursuit of equality and human rights.