The Scientific Revolution paves the way for the Enlightenment

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The Scientific Revolution paves the way for the
Enlightenment
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Why did the Scientific Revolution come about?

• Definition- new way of thinking about the natural
  world
• Renaissance inspired
• Reformation challenged Church/Scientific
  Revolution challenged science
• Referenced past if true/false
• Implications with the Church
• Fueled the way for exploration
• Development of scientific method

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Key People of Scientific Revolution
Geocentrism vs. Heliocentrism
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Galileo Galilei vs. the Church
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Reject old ideas, experiment
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Isaac Newtons Idea of Gravity
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Jenner
Fahrenheit
Celsius
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Characteristics of the Enlightenment

• aka Age of Reason
• Height in mid-1700s
• Philosophes
• Paris
• Salons

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5 Important Concepts of the Philosophy

• Reason- discover truth
• Nature- good and reasonable
• Happiness- dont accept misery
• Progress- improve society
• Liberty- envied Britain

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Key People in Politics
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire- Raised doubts
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Baron Charles de Montesquieu- Separation of Powers
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• Jean Jaques Rousseau- raised doubts

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Denis Diderot- Encyclopedia
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Women- Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Immanuel Kant

• One of the most influential thinkers of modern
  Europe and of the late Enlightenment

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John Locke- positive view
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Thomas Hobbes- negative view
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Spread of Enlightenment into Art and Literature

• Baroque- grand, ornate style 1600s and early
  1700s
• Versailles
• Bach Handel
• Late 1700s, after Enlightenment ideas-
  neoclassical
• New classical
• Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
• Popularity of Novel

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Enlightened Despots

• Supported philosophes, but not giving up power
• Changes made two ways
• Make countries stronger
• Make own rule more effective
• Frederick the Great of Prussia
• Joseph II of Austria
• Catherine the Great of Russia

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Impact of Enlightenment

• Challenged long-held ideas about society
• Divine right
• Union of church and state
• Encouraged monarchs to make reforms
• Inspired revolutions
• American
• French
• Latin American

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Define the word- revolution.What are causes of a
revolution?