For more than a century, the museum has exhibited assorted limbs, bones, tubercular lungs and fetuses, all in the name of science and enlightenment.
NEWS For more than a century, the Museum of Medical History in Berlin has exhibited assorted limbs, bones, tubercular lungs and fetuses, all in the name of science and enlightenment.
James Kingsland is the author of Siddhartha's Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment, which will be available in paperback from 1 June.
The academy's beginnings were quite modest German professors lectured in Latin to a handful of poorly prepared students—and its development was not free from difficulties, but at the end of the 18th century it was a leading European centre of science and enlightenment, preparing and guiding Russia's scientific and technological flowering in the 19th century.
The great eighteenth-century venture of a universal civilization harmonized by rational self-interest, commerce, luxury, arts, and science — the Enlightenment forged by Voltaire, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and others — seems to have reached a turbulent anticlimax in a worldwide revolt against cosmopolitan modernity.
Our other high-circulation currency notes symbolize other core national values: Washington ($1) for self-determination; Lincoln ($5) for justice; and Franklin ($100) for science and enlightenment.
He created the column, "The Science of Enlightenment" for Tricycle Magazine, and recently published "Nagarjuna's Reason Sixty with Chandrakirti's Commentary," a translation study of contemplative self-healing in Buddhism.
He befriends both king and queen, flattering the king and reminding him that, in fact, he runs the country, not his determinedly anti-science-and-enlightenment council or his mother, the dowager queen.
And yet it is inseparable from the Enlightenment science that makes psychology and biology possible.
The explosion of scientific activity in the Renaissance and the triumph of Western science in the Enlightenment are nowhere mentioned.
