Science and Romanticism HST 112 Lecture 5 Prof. Ethan Pollock -- The Expansion of Science The Natural Sciences The Social Sciences -- Romanticism Poetry.

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Science and Romanticism HST 112 Lecture 5 Prof. Ethan Pollock -- The Expansion of Science The Natural Sciences The Social Sciences -- Romanticism Poetry Philosophy Art -- Frankenstein

Science Timeline: 1774 Goethe’s Sorrows of Werther 1795 Ecole Polytechnique 1794 T. Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population 1794 Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Mankind 1808 Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony 1812 Cuvier’s study of fossils A.The Organization of Science B.Natural Sciences -- Physical Science -- Chemistry -- Geology and Biology Revolution in 1) Age of the Earth 2) Idea of Fixity of Species 3) The Scale of Being But not 4) God as Designer/Creator C.Social Sciences -- Applying Mathematics -- History

Romanticism Timeline: 1774 Goethe’s Sorrows of Werther 1795 Ecole Polytechnique 1794 T. Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population 1794 Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Mankind 1808 Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony 1812 Cuvier’s study of fossils General Characteristics -- Emotional -- Interest in Beauty/Aesthetics -- Concern with Spirituality -- Viewed Nature as Untamed -- Rebel against classicism -- Interest in the Distant Past -- Tied to Nationalism and folk tradition -- Belief in the role of Heroes in History

Romanticism Timeline: 1774 Goethe’s Sorrows of Werther 1795 Ecole Polytechnique 1794 T. Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population 1794 Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Mankind 1808 Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony 1812 Cuvier’s study of fossils I.Poetry Wordsworth, from The Tables Turned (1798 ): One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and good Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things – We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

Romanticism Timeline: 1774 Goethe’s Sorrows of Werther 1795 Ecole Polytechnique 1794 T. Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population 1794 Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Mankind 1808 Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony 1812 Cuvier’s study of fossils II.Philosophy F. von Schiller: “If mankind is ever going to solve the problem of politics in practice, he will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through Beauty that man makes his way to freedom.” (1794)

Houdon, Benjamin Franklin (1778)

Rude, La Marseillaise ( )

Bentham’s, Panopticon (1791)

Nash, Royal Pavilion in Brighton ( )

David, The Death of Socrates (1787)

Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)

What about Frankenstein?