Blue whale, (Balaenoptera musculus), also called sulfur-bottom whale, the most massive animal ever to have lived, a species of baleen whale that weighs approximately 150 tons and may attain a length of more than 30 metres (98 feet).
By the 18th century, scientific authority began to displace religious authority, and the disciplines of alchemy and astrology lost scientific credibility. While the Enlightenment cannot be pigeonholed into a specific doctrine or set of dogmas, science came to play a leading role in Enlightenment discourse and thought.owever, the prime example of reference works that systematized scientific knowledge in the age of Enlightenment were universal encyclopedias rather than technical dictionaries. It was the goal of universal encyclopedias to record all human knowledge in a comprehensive reference work.
Influence of the British Enlightenment. 'Thus in the beginning all the World was America,' wrote John Locke. Like many Enlightenment thinkers, Locke had never been to the New World; however, he, like many other philosophes, believed America was a vast Enlightenment laboratory.hese sorts of questions were integral to the thinking of the Enlightenment Era. On the other hand, the Enlightenment was important in the British American colonies because it provided the philosophical justification for the American Revolution for leaders such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.