The Age of Reason
What if God doesn't exist? What if humanity is not the center of the universe? What if there is no absolute truth? Here are some texts by free-thinking pioneers of our era that address these questions.
ROGER BACON
Friar Bacon: His Discovery of the Miracles Of Art, Nature, And Magick
by Roger Bacon [1659].
GIORDANO BRUNO
The Heroic Enthusiasts
(Gli Eroici Furori)
L. Williams, tr. [1887 and 1889]
Bruno's Hermetic masterpiece.
The Da Vinci Notebooks
by Leonardo Da Vinci, tr. by Jean Paul Richter [1883]
First publication on the Internet of all of Da Vinci's
notebooks with all of the images in context.
Get an insight into the real Da Vinci.
Works of Spinoza
Spinoza was one of the first philosophers of the Enlightenment
THOMAS PAINE
Common Sense [1776]
Rights of Man [1791]
Age of Reason [1794]
CHARLES DARWIN
Origin of Species [1872]
The Descent of Man [1871]
Voyage of the Beagle [1909]
MARK TWAIN
What is Man
The War Prayer
Thou Shalt Not Kill
The Fly
Letters From The Earth [1909]
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Volume I: Lectures
Volume II: Lectures
CLARENCE DARROW
Facing Life Fearlessly
Absurdities of the Bible
Why I Am An Agnostic
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman's Bible
About the graphic: When Galileo turned his telescope on Jupiter, he discovered that it has four moons which revolve around it. From this he inferred that the Earth and the other planets could revolve around the Sun. This was one of the key discoveries which started an intellectual revolution which resonates to this day.