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Scottish Enlightenment

  • David Hume
    In Scottish Enlightenment: Origins and activity in Edinburgh

    …were the activities of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society for Improving Arts and Sciences and Particularly Natural Knowledge; its range of topics, officials, and contributors are well illustrated in the three volumes of Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary, published intermittently from 1754. Henry Home, later Lord Kames, who helped reinvigorate…

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