Age of Enlightenment vs. The Scientific Revolution By: Irmarie Alvira & Aja Goode AP World History October 5, 2010

Age of Enlightenment1 Who: Philosophical rationalists René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, and skeptical thinkers in France such as Pierre Bayle What: A period where traditional institutions, customs, and morals where critically questioned, and a strong belief in rationality and science occurred. Was the source of critical ideas, such as the centrality of freedom and democracy. When: 17th & 18th Century Where: Europe and the American colonies Why: Citizens began to question the norms and ideas of their home.

Scientific Revolution2 Who: Began with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, it ended with Isaac Newton (1642-1727), who proposed universal laws and a Mechanical Universe. What: A period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of doctrines that had prevailed. When: 1550-1700 Where: Europe Why: Changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization

Comparison3 Both: Involved an application of the natural, humanistic attitudes. The scientists and philosophers of these eras discovered and taught new ideas that often contradicted what the church and former thinkers had taught and believed before them.

Comparing cont.4 Both: The two revolutions lead to a movement away from the church and faith, and towards a belief in more scientific and mathematical explanations for the way things worked. The hearth of most of the intellectual, political, economic, and social characteristics associated with the modern world.

Contrasting5 Age of Enlightenment: Spiritual, philosophical, and intellectual Scientific Revolution: Science and invention

Contrasting cont.6 Age of Enlightenment: Philosophers challenged beliefs formerly held by the church and government by insisting that human reason would lead to the solution of all problems. Scientific Revolution: Scientists changed people's views of the world they lived in through discoveries such as the theory of the heliocentric universe.

Contrasting cont.7 Age of Enlightenment: Based on the belief that everyone has natural rights and that one must control one's destiny in order to have a better life on earth. Scientific Revolution: Based on the popularization of the belief in a sun-centered universe.

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