DARK BRILLIANCE: The Age of Reason, From Descartes to Peter the Great

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A sweeping history of The Age of Reason, revealing how it was a time of great progress and an era of brutality and intolerance with a very human cost. Details the transformation of Europe after The Age of Reason; how armies transformed and political turbulence exploded on a continental scale. Explores all the key events and influential characters of the era including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV, and Charles I. Tells the vivid story of this paradoxical age, while also exploring the painful cost of creating the progress and modernity upon which the Western world was built. Contains 16 pages of color illustrations.