Knowledge During The Enlightenment Period

The Enlightenment period was a time of great reasoning and new ideas. It was the time of many changes, and certain people in society didn’t necessarily like the change. It inspired a lot of the world as we know it today. Without certain knowledge like the Copernican theory we might not have made it to the moon, and without Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Lock the American justice system might not have been created. Scientists and those seeking that knowledge in the Enlightenment period were met with many roadblocks in the sharing of their discoveries, including church opposition, and language barriers.
One roadblock to the spread of scientific ideas, was religions intolerance. The Catholic Church met new scientific ideas with great intolerance.