Title: Chapter 10: Revolution and Enlightenment
1Chapter 10 Revolution and Enlightenment
2Section 1 The Scientific Revolution
- Background to the Revolution
- Middle Ages, scientist relied on a few ancient
authorities like Aristotle but there are several
reasons why philosophers abandoned old views and
developed new ones -
- Renaissance humanist discovered works by Ptolemy,
Archimedes, and Plato that had disagreed with
Aristotle - invention of new instruments like the telescope
and microscope - printing press spread ideas
- the study of mathematics
3- Revolution in Astronomy
- The Ptolemaic System A geocentric model of the
universe earth was fixed and motionless beyond
the spheres was Heaven, where God and saved souls
resided
4Nicholas Copernicus wrote On the Revolutions of
the Heavenly Spheres. In the book he introduced
the heliocentric model of the universe, where
planets revolved around the sun, moons revolved
around planets, and apparent movement of the sun
was caused by the earth spinning
5Johannes Kepler discovered the laws of planetary
motion. Keplers First Law orbits of planets
was elliptical not circular sun off-center
6- Galileo
- first to use a telescope discovered mountains on
the moon, four moons revolving Jupiter, and
sunspots. - Wrote The Starry Messenger said planets were
composed of material substance rather than just
orbs of light widely read made Europeans aware
of the works of Copernicus and Kepler as well. - Galileo was put on trial for heresy because his
writings threatened church teachings that the
heavens were fixed and unchanging and that seemed
to contradict the Bible
7- Isaac Newton
- explained motion in the universe and tied
together the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler, and
Galileo - wrote Principles of Natural Philosophy in the
book Newton defined the laws of motion crucial
to his whole argument was the universal law of
gravitation this law states that every object in
the universe is attracted to every other object
by a force called gravity.
8Breakthroughs in Medicine and Chemistry
9- Anatomy was based on the work of Andreas
Vesalius wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body
in the book, he discussed what he found
dissecting human bodies presented an accurate
description of the organs and structure of the
body
10- William Harvey wrote On the Motion of the Heart
and Blood showed that the heart was the
beginning point for the circulation of blood in
the body also proved same blood flowed in both
veins and arteries and makes a complete circuit
as it passes through the body.
11- Chemistry
- Robert Boyle worked on the properties of gases
Boyles Law the volume of a gas varies with the
pressure exerted on it - Antoine Lavoisier invented system of naming
chemical elements - regarded as founder of
- modern chemistry.
12- Women and the Origins of Modern Science
- Margaret Cavendish wrote Observations Upon
Experimental Philosophy in the book she was
critical of the growing belief that humans,
through science, were masters of nature - Maria Winkelmann discovered a comet was refused
a teaching position because of her sex
13- Descartes and Reason
- Rene Descartes wrote Discourse on Method in the
book he emphasized the importance of the mind and
reason mind and matter were completely separate
famous quote I think, therefore I am
Descartes has been called the father of modern
rationalism the belief that reason is the chief
source of knowledge.
14- The Scientific Method a systematic procedure for
collecting and analyzing evidence developed by
Francis Bacon Bacon believed scientist should
use inductive reasoning to learn about nature
proceed from the particular to the general
15Section 10.2 The Enlightenment
The Thinker
16- Path to the Enlightenment
- ________________ saw the success scientist had
using ______________ to discover
_________________ (Scientific Revolution)
therefore __________________ were confident they
could use ______________ to discover
__________________and influence society
(___________________________)
17- _________________ wrote __________________________
_____ in the book he argues that everyone is
born with a ________________ (tabula rasa blank
tablet) and people are molded by their
__________________ if people were exposed to the
right _________________, then people could be
changed and a new society created.
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19Philosophes and Their Ideas
- __________________________
- wrote __________________________ in this book
Montesquieu tries to use the ____________________
to find __________________ that govern the
__________ and _____________ relationships of
human beings - While studying Englands monarch,
- he found it to _________________
- of government the ____________, the
- ___________, and the __________.The
- government functioned through
- __________________ each ___________
- and ___________ the _____________
- this system provided the greatest
- security for the state
20_____________
- Wrote____________________ in the
- book he promoted_____________
- toleration
- Theory the universe is a ___________
- and ________is the___________________
- also wrote against__________________,__________,
and the _____________ of - the_____________ and his writings offended
the ________________and_______________ he was
imprisoned and exiled for his writings his
books were censored and burned therefore Voltaire
becomes an ardent defender of the freedom of
speech
21_____________
- wrote the Encyclopedia a 28 volume collection of
knowledge he edited its purpose was to
_______________________ - articles supported_______________, and called
for___________________________ - _________________________________.
22Toward a New Social Science
- Economics
- The __________________ group who was interested
in _______________________________ that
governed___________________ argued that if
individuals were __________________to pursue
their own___________________, all society would
benefit - ___________________________
- Let people do what they ________
- no ______________ by government
23- ______________________wrote_______________________
_____. He believed in ____________________ and
he argued the __________________had only three
roles - 1. ___________________from invasion
- 2. ___________________from injustice
- 3. ________________________projects
24______________________
- wrote essay______________________ in the book he
argues _________________ should not
be_______________________ also
opposed________________________
25The Later Enlightenment
- _________________________
- Wrote______________________________________ in
the book he argues that _____________________ and
_______________________________and in the process
become _______________ to the government - Wrote_________________________ he argues
an________________________________________________
_____ self-interest must be given up for what is
best for the entire - community
- wrote __________a novel that
- argues that an _____________should
- ____________________________
26Social World of the Enlightenment
- The ______________________ more books were
published and _________________________________
_____________________________________ began to be
published in the early 1700s - The ___________________ drawing rooms of the
wealthy upper classs invited _______________and
took part in _________________about the ideas of
the ________________________ these gatherings
helped spread the ideas of the Enlightenment
27Religion in the Enlightenment
- ______________________ new religious movement
started by________________ stressed the
importance of ____________ and encouraged
behaviors that led to____________________________
28Section 3 The Impact of the Enlightenment
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