A comprehensive A-to-Z survey of the Enlightenment period in Europe, spanning the late 17th through the 18th century. The broad scope of its entries subject economics, education, music, and science; key natural law, social contract, checks and balances; John Locke, Moses Mendelssohn, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Mozart; key Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, London. Photographs. Index. x, 485+ 1 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. small 4to..