...get such a bad rap. It was the age of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Isaac Newton (1643-1727), John Locke (1632-1704), Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1550), Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), Samuel De Champlain (1575-1635), Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Blaise Pascal (1632-1662), and Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677); it was the age that saw the publication of the King James Bible (1611), the creation of the logarithm (1614), the discovery of circulatory system (1628), the Founding of the Royal Society of London (1660), the creation of calculus (1684), and the Glorious Revolution (1688).
Pray tell what was so dark about the period preceding the "Enlightenment".
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Um, hold on. The period you are talking about is early Renaissance or the Late Middle Ages. The Dark Ages are the times between the fall of Rome to about 1200. They were literally a decline in culture and art. These masterminds you point out are the products of the Renaissance period. They are not even technically in the Middle ages, but the Renaissance.
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