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The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment or the Birmingham Enlightenment, was a scientific, economic, political, cultural and legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wider English Midlands during the second half of the eighteenth century.

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  • Midlands Enlightenment (en)
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  • The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment or the Birmingham Enlightenment, was a scientific, economic, political, cultural and legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wider English Midlands during the second half of the eighteenth century. (en)
  • O Iluminismo nas Terras Médias (em inglês: Midlands Enlightenment) foi uma manifestação científica, econômica, política, cultural e legal na Era do Iluminismo que se desenvolveu em Birmingham e nas terras médias inglesas mais amplas durante o segunda metade do século XVIII. (pt)
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  • The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment or the Birmingham Enlightenment, was a scientific, economic, political, cultural and legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wider English Midlands during the second half of the eighteenth century. At the core of the movement were the members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, who included Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, James Keir and Thomas Day. Other notable figures included the author Anna Seward, the painter Joseph Wright of Derby, the American colonist, botanist and poet Susanna Wright, the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, the typographer John Baskerville, the poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone and the architects James Wyatt and Samuel Wyatt. Although the Midlands Enlightenment has attracted less study as an intellectual movement than the European Enlightenment of thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire, or the Scottish Enlightenment of David Hume and Adam Smith, it dominated the experience of the Enlightenment within England and its leading thinkers had international influence. In particular the Midlands Enlightenment formed a pivotal link between the earlier Scientific Revolution and the later Industrial Revolution, facilitating the exchange of ideas between experimental science, polite culture and practical technology that enabled the technological preconditions for rapid economic growth to be attained. Its participants such as Boulton, Susanna Wright, Watt and Keir were fully integrated into the exchange of scientific and philosophical ideas among the intellectual elites of Europe, the British American colonies and the new United States, but were simultaneously engaged in solving the practical problems of technology, economics and manufacture. They thus formed a natural bridge across the science-technology divide, where the "abstract knowledge" of chemistry and Newtonian mechanics could become the "useful knowledge" of technological development, the results of which could in turn feed back into the wider scientific knowledge-base, creating a "chain-reaction of innovation". Susanna Wright was involved in analogous thinking in the biological sciences and law in the American colonies and early United States, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic, north of the Mason–Dixon line; she was born in 1697 in Warrington in Lancashire and moved to colonial Pennsylvania in her late teens in 1718 (following her parents four years earlier) after being educated in the Midlands. The thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment did not limit themselves to practical matters of utilitarian value, however, and their influence was not confined to their significance in the development of modern industrial society. The ideas of the Midlands Enlightenment were to be highly influential in the birth of British romanticism with the poets Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Blake all having intellectual connections to its leading thinkers, and Midlands Enlightenment thought was also influential in the spheres of education, evolutionary biology, botany, and medicine. The Midlands Enlightenment was connected to earlier Midlands radical religious reform of establishment of Catholic Church and Holy Roman Empire laws and ideology, including the founding of the Society of Friends in Lancashire by followers of Margaret Fell and George Fox, and Midlands nonviolent political radicalism that led to the documentation of the English Bill of Rights in 1689. (en)
  • O Iluminismo nas Terras Médias (em inglês: Midlands Enlightenment) foi uma manifestação científica, econômica, política, cultural e legal na Era do Iluminismo que se desenvolveu em Birmingham e nas terras médias inglesas mais amplas durante o segunda metade do século XVIII. No centro do movimento estavam os membros da Sociedade Lunar de Birmingham, que incluíam Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, e . Outras figuras notáveis incluíram a autora , o pintor Joseph Wright de Derby, a colonizadora, botânica e poeta americana , o lexicógrafo Samuel Johnson, o tipógrafo , o poeta e paisagista e os arquitetos James Wyatt e . Embora o iluminismo nas Terras Médias tenha atraído menos estudo como movimento intelectual do que o iluminismo europeu de pensadores como Jean-Jacques Rousseau e Voltaire, ou o Iluminismo escocês de David Hume e Adam Smith, ele dominou a experiência do Iluminismo na Inglaterra e seus principais pensadores tiveram influência internacional. Sendo assim, o iluminismo nas Terras Médias formou um elo fundamental entre a Revolução Científica anterior e a Revolução Industrial posterior, facilitando a troca de ideias entre a ciência experimental, cultura escolar e a tecnologia na prática que permitiram que as pré-condições tecnológicas para o rápido crescimento econômico fossem alcançadas. Seus participantes, como Boulton, , Watt e Keir, estavam totalmente integrados ao intercâmbio de ideias científicas e filosóficas entre as elites intelectuais da Europa, as colônias americanas britânicas e o novo Estados Unidos, mas estavam simultaneamente engajados na solução dos problemas práticos da tecnologia, economia e manufatura. Assim, eles formaram uma ponte natural através da divisão ciência-tecnologia, onde o "conhecimento abstrato" da química e da mecânica newtoniana poderia se tornar o "conhecimento útil" do desenvolvimento tecnológico, cujos resultados poderiam, por sua vez, voltar à base de conhecimento científico mais ampla, criando uma "reação em cadeia da inovação". estava envolvida no pensamento análogo das ciências biológicas, na lei das colônias americanas no início dos Estados Unidos, principalmente no Meio-Atlântico, ao norte da Linha Mason–Dixon. Susanna nasceu em 1697 na cidade de Warrington, em Lancashire, e mudou-se para a Pensilvânia colonial no final da adolescência em 1718 (seguindo seus pais quatro anos antes) depois de estudar em Midlands. Os pensadores do iluminismo nas Terras Médias não se limitaram a assuntos práticos de valor utilitário, muito pelo contrário, sua influência não se limitou a importância no desenvolvimento da sociedade industrial moderna. As idéias do iluminismo de Terras Médias tiveram uma grande influência desde o nascimento do romantismo britânico com os poetas Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, e William Blake, ou seja, todos tiveram conexões intelectuais com seus principais pensadores. Além disso, o pensamento do iluminismo de Terras Médias também foi influente nas esferas da educação, biologia evolutiva, botânica e medicina. O iluminismo de Terras Médias estava ligado a antiga reforma religiosa radical do estabelecimento das leis e ideologia da Igreja Católica e do Sacro Império Romano, incluindo a fundação da Sociedade de Amigos em Lancashire, seguidos por e George Fox, e não violento de Midlands que levou à documentação da Declaração de Direitos em 1689. (pt)
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