An Introduction to Modern Cosmology

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Part One

Introduction - Intellectual History And Conceptual Change

The Dawn Of The 17th Century - Aristotelian Scholasticism

The New Vision Of Francis Bacon

The New Astronomy And Cosmology

Descartes's Dream Of Perfect Knowledge

The Spectre Of Thomas Hobbes

Skepticism And Jansenism - Blaise Pascal

Newton's Discovery

The Newtonian Revolution

John Locke - The Revolution In Knowledge

The Lockean Moment

Skepticism And Calvinism - Pierre Bayle

Part Two

The Moderns - The Generation Of 1680-1715

Introduction To Deism

The Conflict Between Deism And Christianity

Montesquieu And The Problem Of Relativism

Voltaire - Bringing England To France

Bishop Joseph Butler And God's Providence

The Skeptical Challenge To Optimism - David Hume

The Assault Upon Philosophical Optimism - Voltaire

The Philosophies - The Triumph Of The French Enlightenment

Beccaria And Enlightened Reform

Rousseau's Dissent

Materialism And Naturalism - The Boundaries Of The Enlightenment

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