based on engagements with and an understanding of
nature.
During the Renaissance, this knowledge was cultivated and further amplified. A century later,
the so-called Enlightenment broke out, and with Enlightenment came a formal launch of
modernity. What we see is that the Enlightenment had a phenomenal effect on reason, in
terms of triggering the apparatus of modernity in a surprisingly short time. Also inscribed in
Enlightenment were people like Goethe, who effortlessly combined art and science…
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