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Review 30 Years War
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Review Absolutism
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Review English Civil War – English Glorious Revolution
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Scientific Revolution
The basics
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Descartes “I think therefore, I am”
Cartesian Dualism: Mind and Body are separate Rationalism: Humans could view and understand the physical world through mathematical thinking… HUUUUUUGE problem for the Church.
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Francis Bacon Inductive Reasoning.
Rely on careful systematic observation. Empiricism
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Scientific Method Isaac Newton combined Empiricism and Rationalism
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Scientific Societies Politics meets intellectual
Louis XIV recognized French Academy (due to absolute rule) English Royal Society independent (due to constitutional rule)
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