What Was the Enlightenment? Ideas That Shaped the Modern Era
Uncover the Enlightenment's key thinkers, concepts, and lasting influence on modern society and governance.
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2 corrections applied: The 1726 Rohan-affair Bastille stay lasted roughly two weeks, not eleven months | Newton's 1687 work is properly titled Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; 'Principia Mathematica' alone is the Whitehead-Russell work
Before[FAQ JSON-LD field] Isaac Newton's 'Principia Mathematica' (1687) demonstrated that the natural world operated according to laws discoverable by human reason alone.
After[FAQ JSON-LD field] Isaac Newton's 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' (1687) demonstrated that the natural world operated according to laws discoverable by human reason alone.
Why: Body text already correctly said 'about two weeks of confinement' for the Bastille stay and used the full correct title 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' for Newton's work. But the invisible FAQ JSON-LD field's 'What was the Enlightenment?' answer still used the bare, incorrect title 'Principia Mathematica' (which properly refers to the later Whitehead-Russell work). Decoded the faq field (base64->json->base64->json), corrected the title, re-encoded using the exact reverse sequence. Verified post-PUT that the FAQ field still resolves to a valid 6-item array with the fix present. The eleven-months/Bastille fabrication was not present anywhere in the FAQ.
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