1. Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955), 26–36. For an excellent survey of the historiograpy of science in the eighteenth century
2. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter, eds., The Ferment of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1980)
3. Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979).
4. Lyman Tower Sargent, “Is There Only One Utopian Tradition?” Journal of the History of Ideas XLIII (4) (1982), 681–689.
5. Manuels, Utopian Thought, 430–435. On later examples of reactions against mechanistic science, see Robert Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (New York: Schocken Books, 1970)