Key Concepts of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

The Scientific Revolution Key Concepts

I. The Aristotelian Universe ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

II. Scientific “Revolutionaries”

A. Copernicus (1473-1543) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

B. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

C. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

D. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

E. Isaac Newton (1642-1727) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

F. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

G. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

III. Causes of the Scientific Revolution ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

IV. Consequences of the Scientific Revolution ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

IV. Consequences of the Scientific Revolution (cont) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Enlightenment “ Siecle de Lumiere” “ The Century of Light”

I. What was it? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

II. Key Ideas ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

III. An Attack on the Old Regime

A. The World of the Old Regime ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

B. Conflict with the Capitalistic Middle Class ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

C. Popularization of Science ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

D. A New World of Uncertainties ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

IV. The Philosophes ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

V. The Problem of Censorship ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

VI. The Role of the Salon ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

VII. Diderot’s Encyclopedia ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

VII. Diderot’s Encyclopedia (cont) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

VIII. Famous Enlightenment Thinkers

A. Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

B. Voltaire (1694-1778) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

C. Baron Paul d’Holbach (1723-1789) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

D. David Hume (1711-1776) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

E. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

E. Rousseau (cont) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

F. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

IX. Enlightened Despotism ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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