<img width="640" height="596" src="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1931-59-233-h-700x652.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1931-59-233-h-700x652.jpg 700w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1931-59-233-h-300x279.jpg 300w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1931-59-233-h-170x158.jpg 170w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1931-59-233-h.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="26083" data-permalink="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/08/15/buttons-an-expression-of-curiosity/1931-59-233-h/" data-orig-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1931-59-233-h.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,954" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="1931-59-233-h" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1931-59-233-h-300x279.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1931-59-233-h-700x652.jpg" />This button, from a set of nine, offers the viewer a chance to peek into the age of Enlightenment, a period of time when the human mind was breaking free from the constraints of the Church and the limitations of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance, primarily spanning the fifteenth through sixteenth centuries, is often thought...
