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Nature 376, 477 (10 August 1995) | doi:10.1038/376477a0

The science of politics

Jacqueline Reynolds, Professor

Science and the Founding Fathers. ByI. Bernard Cohen. Norton: 1995. Pp. 368. $25, £17.95.

THE hallmark of the eighteenth century, le siecle des lumieres, was revolution - revolution of human thought as well as actual insurrection against established governments. This was the age in which old dogma passed away, reason was held to be supreme, science flourished in the salon as well as the laboratory.