Becker, C. L. The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers. Yale University Press, 1932.
Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment. Princeton University Press, 1951.
Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things
Gaukroger, Stephen, ed. The Soft Underbelly of Reason: The Passions in the Seventeenth Century. Routledge, 1998.
Willey, Basil. Seventeenth Century Background. Columbia University Press, 1965.
Wilson, Margaret D. Ideas and Mechanism: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy. Princeton University Press, 1999.
The Gutenberg project, of which we are proud to have a mirror site here at Lancaster, makes plain e-texts freely available, and many key Enlightenment philosopher and writers are well represented.
A very useful listing of 18th Century e-texts maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.
Jonathan Bennett has edited the main texts in such a way as to make it easier to come to grips with the philosophical content - by modernising the English and style. Great idea - I think. His editions are here.
Galileo and Einstein Lecture series by Michael Fowler at Virginia
Sian Dooley: Locke on reasoning in human beings and animals
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