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Date c. 1730 - c. 1820
Location Scotland
Context empiricism • Enlightenment • rationalism • skepticism

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David Hume
Adam Smith
Joseph Black visiting James Watt in his University of Glasgow workshop.
Timeline from the article “History” in the second edition (1780) of Encyclopædia Britannica
Edinburgh
South front of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, England; designed by Robert Adam (1757–59) and built in 1760–70.
title page of volume one of the first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica
rotative steam engine
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Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
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James Watt
James Watt
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James Hutton
James Hutton
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William Cullen
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Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
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Allan Ramsay, oil painting by John Smibert; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
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Thomas Telford
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