'Age of Reason' The Age of Reason What if God doesn't exist? What if humanity is not the center of the universe? What if there is no absolute truth? Here are some texts by free-thinking pioneers of our era that address these questions. ROGER BACON Friar Bacon: His Discovery of the Miracles Of Art, Nature, And Magick by Roger Bacon [1659]. GIORDANO BRUNO The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) L. Williams, tr. [1887 and 1889] Bruno's Hermetic masterpiece. The Da Vinci Notebooks by Leonardo Da Vinci, tr. by Jean Paul Richter [1883] First publication on the Internet of all of Da Vinci's notebooks with all of the images in context. Get an insight into the real Da Vinci. Works of Spinoza Spinoza was one of the first philosophers of the Enlightenment THOMAS PAINE Common Sense [1776] Rights of Man [1791] Age of Reason [1794] CHARLES DARWIN Origin of Species [1872] The Descent of Man [1871] Voyage of the Beagle [1909] MARK TWAIN What is Man The War Prayer Thou Shalt Not Kill The Fly Letters From The Earth [1909] ALBERT EINSTEIN On prayer; purpose in nature; meaning of life; the soul; a personal God Conversation on Religion and Antisemitism Religion and Science Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman's Bible About the graphic: When Galileo turned his telescope on Jupiter, he discovered that it has four moons which revolve around it. From this he inferred that the Earth and the other planets could revolve around the Sun. This was one of the key discoveries which started an intellectual revolution which resonates to this day.