1. QUIZ pp
Who was the French scientist and mathematician who wrote PENSEES (Thoughts)?
What was this thinker attempting to do in his writings?
What was the most significant means by which scientific knowledge was spread?
What was another way in which scientific knowledge was spread?
Literate middle class and propertied elites were not attracted to the new science and had no interest in exploiting resources for profits. (true/false)

2. QUIZ ANSWERS Blaise Pascal Keep science and religion united
Scientific societies
Scientific journals
false

3. SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE 17TH CENTURY
Conflict between science and religion
Split between scientific investigations and religious beliefs
Increasing secularism for some
Attempt to combine God, man, and a mechanistic universe for some

4. SPINOZA
God was not simply the creator of the universe…he was the universe
All that is is in God, and nothing can be apart from God
Nature does not exist only for man’s use
Everything has a rational explanation
Spinoza

5. BLAISE PASCAL

6. PASCAL French scientist and mathematician
Tried to keep science and religion united
Author of Pensees
Christianianity is not contrary to reason
Pascal’s wager

8. THE SPREAD OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Scientific Societies
First appeared in Italy
Most important were in England and France
The English Royal Society 1640’s – not controlled by the govt
The French Royal Academy of Sciences 1650’s – controlled by the govt
Scientific Journals
Allowed scientists to share their ideas with each other
Allowed science to be spread to a wider, literate public