Scottish Enlightenment
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The Scottish Enlightenment was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century, Scotland ha
David Hume and Adam Smith on the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Atlas Van der Hagen KW1049B11 038 SCOTIA REGNUM cum insulis adjacentibus
In Scotland, the Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes and economic expansion between the mid-eighteenth century and the late nineteenth century. By the start of the
Shipping on the Clyde, by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1881
Cox's Stack, a Category A Listed Building in Lochee, Dundee, Camperdown Works, designed by George Addison Cox with James MacLaren, built 1865-6, visible on the city’s skyline.
Adam Smith, the "father of modern economics"
An 1851 illustration showing the reaping machine developed by Patrick Bell