1. The Scientific Revolution
AP World History
Mr. Charnley

2. The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
16th – 18th centuries
Causes
European Exploration and Colonization
Renaissance
Absolutism and Imperialism

3. Introduction Old science
traditional authorities of the church and ancient Greco-Roman philosophers
Aristotle’s geocentric theory
Supported by the Roman Catholic Church

4. New (Good) Science exploration and new discoveries
questioning old sources of authority
trying to develop new knowledge to use
Reasoned observation and systematic measurement
changed the way people viewed the world and their place in it

5. Religion Conflict and partnership with the Church:
Roman Catholic Church established universities
Fear of a conflict between reason and science.
Galileo’s imprisonment over heliocentric theory

6. Nicolas Copernicus
Heliocentric theory

7. Gallileo Gallilei Italian astronomer Telescope
Confirmed heliocentric theory

8. Johan Kepler German astronomer Planetary orbit
Confirmed heliocentric theory

9. William Harvey
English physician
Circulatory System

10. Rene Descartes French philosopher Pioneered Western Philosophy
Logic and Reason
Skepticism

11. Francis Bacon English philosopher Scientific Method
Identify a problem or research question.
Form a hypothesis that can be tested.
Design and perform an experiment to test this hypothesis.
Record the results of the experiments.
Analyze the results to form a conclusion that either proves or disproves the hypothesis. (Repeat.)

12. Isaac Newton
English scientist
Theory of gravity
Laws of motion

13. AP World History Mr. Charnley
The Enlightenment
AP World History
Mr. Charnley

14. The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
17th – 18th centuries
Causes
European Exploration and Colonization
Renaissance
Absolutism and Imperialism

15. Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan

16. John Locke
Two Treatises on Government

17. Charles de Secondat de Montesquieu
The Spirit of Laws

18. Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract

19. Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire
Candide

20. New schools of art and forms of literature
Romanticism
classical subjects
public events
natural scenes
living people (portraits)
New forms of literature evolved, such as the novel
Cervantes’ Don Quixote

21. Technologies All-weather roads New designs in farm tools
Improvements in ship design
Technologies

22. Miguel de Cervantes: Novelist
Don Quixote

23. Eugène Delacroix: Painter
Girl Seated in a Cemetery Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.

24. Cleopatra and the Peasant. 1838. Oil on canvas
Cleopatra and the Peasant Oil on canvas. Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

25. Effects Political revolutions Abolitionism Feminism
Religious tolerance
Anti-imperialism
Anti-colonialism