Философия
John Cottingham, The Rationalists, Oxford University Press, 1988.
R. S. Woolhouse, The Empiricists, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Anthony Kenny, The Rise of Modern Philosophy, A New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, vol. 5, Hobbes to Hume (1959), Continuum, 2003.
Margaret Atherton, Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period, Hackett, 1994.
Просвещение и политика
Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment, 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Maurice Cranston, Philosophers and Pamphleteers: Political Theorists of the Enlightenment, Oxford University Press, 1986.
Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2010.
Наука
Bernard Cohen, The Birth of a New Physics, Penguin, 1992.
Michael R. Matthews, ed., The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy: Selected Readings, Hackett, 1989.
David Wootton, The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, Allen Lane, 2015.