Chapter 18 Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: An Intellectual Revolution in the West

XThe Scientific Revolution äBackground FRenaissance humanists FRenaissance artists FNew instruments and machines FMathematics FHermetic magic äAstronomy FPtolemaic (geocentric) conception FCopernicus ( ) FJohannes Kepler ( ) FGalileo Galilei ( ) FIsaac Newton ( )

äMedicine FGalen FAndreas Vesalius ( ) FWilliam Harvey ( ) äWomen in the Origins of Modern Science FMargaret Cavendish ( ) FMaria Winkelmann ( ) FFemale physiology XDescartes, Rationalism and a New View of Humankind äRené Descartes ( ) äDiscourse on Method, 1637 äDeductive reasoning

XScience and Religion in the Seventeenth Century äConflict between science and religion äBlaise Pascal ( ) FUnion of science and religion XSpread of Scientific Thought äFrancis Bacon ( ) FInductive reasoning äScientific societies

Centers of Enlightenment circa Among the first scientific societies was the Academy of Experiments established in Florence in 1657 by two of Galileo's students and patronized by the Medicis. It had laboratory facilities to carry out experiments. 2. The English Royal Society evolved out of the informal gatherings of scientists at London and Oxford in the 1640s. Charles II chartered Oxford in 1662 but it received little state support. 3. The French Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris grew out of informal scientific meetings in the 1650s and gained formal recognition by Louis XIV in It received extensive state support and remained under state control. Members were appointed and paid salaries by the state. 4. The construction of observatories in 1675 at Paris and at Greenwich in England greatly facilitated research in astronomy. 5. The Scientific Academy was created in Berlin by the elector of Brandenburg in Sponsored by the government, it was devoted to the betterment of the state. 6. Beginning in 1665 the Journal de Savants was published weekly in Paris. The journal provided its readers general scientific knowledge and results of experiments. In England, The English Royal Society published Philosophical Transactions beginning in With a focus upon practicing scientists, it published papers of its members and learned correspondence. 7. Amsterdam was a center of publishing since the seventeenth century. 8. The Enlightenment in Sweden was focused at Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences established in Also significant was Linnaeus's Botanical Gardens created at Uppsala in The Swedish Academy was established in 1786 at Stockholm. 9. More books were written in the eighteenth century on education than all previous centuries combined. In general, there was discontent with the control of education by the clergy that gave rise to a demand that there be state regulation and inspection of educational facilities. By the second half of the eighteenth century, new schools were established in Prussia, Belgium, Austria, and Russia. These schools taught practical subjects suited to the interests of the people. 10. The teaching of medicine in the eighteenth century was centered at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Also of importance for medicine were Edinburgh University in Scotland and a new medical school founded in Vienna. 11. Emperors, kings, and princes throughout Europe sought to demonstrate their wealth and power by building palaces imitating the estate of the French king at Versailles. While they were able to reproduced the size, the style original. Baroque-Rococo blended into the whole building sculptured figures as well as wall and ceiling paintings. Question: 1. How did the universities represent centers of dissemination for the Enlightenment? Centers of Enlightenment circa Among the first scientific societies was the Academy of Experiments established in Florence in 1657 by two of Galileo's students and patronized by the Medicis. It had laboratory facilities to carry out experiments. 2. The English Royal Society evolved out of the informal gatherings of scientists at London and Oxford in the 1640s. Charles II chartered Oxford in 1662 but it received little state support. 3. The French Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris grew out of informal scientific meetings in the 1650s and gained formal recognition by Louis XIV in It received extensive state support and remained under state control. Members were appointed and paid salaries by the state. 4. The construction of observatories in 1675 at Paris and at Greenwich in England greatly facilitated research in astronomy. 5. The Scientific Academy was created in Berlin by the elector of Brandenburg in Sponsored by the government, it was devoted to the betterment of the state. 6. Beginning in 1665 the Journal de Savants was published weekly in Paris. The journal provided its readers general scientific knowledge and results of experiments. In England, The English Royal Society published Philosophical Transactions beginning in With a focus upon practicing scientists, it published papers of its members and learned correspondence. 7. Amsterdam was a center of publishing since the seventeenth century. 8. The Enlightenment in Sweden was focused at Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences established in Also significant was Linnaeus's Botanical Gardens created at Uppsala in The Swedish Academy was established in 1786 at Stockholm. 9. More books were written in the eighteenth century on education than all previous centuries combined. In general, there was discontent with the control of education by the clergy that gave rise to a demand that there be state regulation and inspection of educational facilities. By the second half of the eighteenth century, new schools were established in Prussia, Belgium, Austria, and Russia. These schools taught practical subjects suited to the interests of the people. 10. The teaching of medicine in the eighteenth century was centered at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Also of importance for medicine were Edinburgh University in Scotland and a new medical school founded in Vienna. 11. Emperors, kings, and princes throughout Europe sought to demonstrate their wealth and power by building palaces imitating the estate of the French king at Versailles. While they were able to reproduced the size, the style original. Baroque-Rococo blended into the whole building sculptured figures as well as wall and ceiling paintings. Question: 1. How did the universities represent centers of dissemination for the Enlightenment?

XThe Enlightenment äBernard de Fontenelle ( ) äSkepticism about Christianity äJohn Locke ( ) äIsaac Newton ( ) äThe Philosophes FCharles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ( ) FFrançois-Marie Arouet, Voltaire ( ) m Deism FDenis Diederot ( ) äJean-Jacques Rousseau ( )

XThe Science of Man äPhysiocrats FFrançois Quesnay ( ) äAdam Smith ( ) XThe Question of Women äNature and value of women äMary Astill ( ) äMary Wollstonecraft ( ) XSpread of the Enlightenment äMarie-Thèrése de Geoffrin äCoffeehouses, cafés, reading clubs, lending libraries äLearned societies

XCulture and Society äRococo FArt and architecture äMusic FJohann Sebastian Bach ( ) FGeorge Frederick Handel ( ) FFranz Joseph Hayden ( ) FWolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( ) äLiterature FSamuel Richardson ( ) FHenry Fielding ( )

XPopular Culture äFestivals FCarnival äTaverns XCrime and Punishment äDecline in crimes of violence, increase in theft äPublic spectacle ä Death penalty

XReligion äJews äSephardic Jews äCatholicism äMethodism FJohn Wesley ( )