"scientific enlightenment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English, especially in the context of discussing the history of science and philosophy.
Example: The scientific enlightenment of the 18th century marked a significant shift towards empirical and rational thinking in the Western world.
Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path to philosophical, moral and scientific enlightenment.
But the spirit of scientific enlightenment was also flourishing in this industrialized period.
Like the hero of CP Snow's The Search, he was also seeking scientific enlightenment.
When science tries to be central to the plot of a novel, or when the theatre is used for scientific enlightenment, the attempt all too often unravels.
The Bolsheviks, in common with other socialists, regarded religious belief as gross superstition, and they were determined to eliminate it by a combination of repression, ridicule, and scientific enlightenment.
That trial, which pitted the orator William Jennings Bryan against the celebrated lawyer Clarence Darrow, has been ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetypal clash of scientific enlightenment and old-time religion.
Drawing on Renaissance humanism and the emerging scientific revolution, Enlightenment thinkers rejected feudalism, royalism, superstition, and religious prophecy, applying the reason of science to society.
Drawing on Renaissance humanism and the emerging scientific revolution, Enlightenment thinkers rejected royalism, feudalism, and superstition, urging an egalitarian approach and expanding human rights, applying the reason of science to a society to be marked by a separation of church and state.
The Pythagoreans resurface whenever scientific and intellectual enlightenment glistens.
ny and Russia, and to further the scientific and technological enlightenment of the Soviet population.
His accuracy, achieved with life casts and calipers, dovetailed with the scientific bent of Enlightenment thinkers, who were his subjects.
