Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution

This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' more generally.John Gascoigne is the author of 'Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution', published 1989 under ISBN 9780521351393 and ISBN 0521351391.