The intellectual movement that swept across Europe and its colonies in the mid and late 18th century is called Enlightenment. It is known as the "Age of Discovery", because many advance in both science and global exploration greatly expanded human knowledge and confidence. Not everyone had confidence in progressing, but for the most part those involved in the process of gaining human progress had no doubt that it would be successful. Many philosophers and mathematicians influenced Europe into following their knowledge leading to a reform.

Enlightenment's faith in human progress was structured so it could be successfully began for an upward march of progress. The philosophers perceived themselves as the forefront of the movement. They formed ideas as a community and debating over them making them into stronger thoughts. The people had to bind together forming a single idea propelling them forward in society. Much of the Enlightenment was based solely on faith. Other individuals had to believe or gain the respect of truth from philosophers and mathematicians that what they were bringing information out to the public.

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Although the 16th and 20th centuries are very far apart they had some similarities and difference within each period. In the 20th century technology is the big gain. We are acquiring so much information from little discoveries as did the mathematicians in the 16th century. Isaac Newton was a 16th century mathematician who wrote Principia Mathematica. He created basic laws that still are a part of today's society like the law of velocity, force, inertia and acceleration. The knowledge in the 16th century was much less than the knowledge in the 20th century. Today, people are very intelligent in what they say and do. Also, money was different. It barely existed back in the 16th century and now it is a necessity to have as much money as possible. The publishing of encyclopedia impacted the society making them gain fact without any questioning or guessing involved.

The primary goal of the reform was to bring the idea of individualism to the table and focus on working as a group to strengthen the society. Many philosophers did not think that though. They thought that it was corrupting the minds of the people with wrong information.

Society today is much more civilized than those of the 16th century. Civilized to me means cultural development. The cultural development of today is much greater than in the 16th or even 18th centuries. Today's society is has achieved much great

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