1. The Scientific Revolution

2. The Changing 17th Century
Impacts of the 30 years war
German Particularism and the weakening of the Holy Roman Empire
the principle of leaving each state in an empire or federation free to govern itself and promote its own interests, without reference to those of the whole.
Rise of the Absolutist state
increased central authority

4. Rise of Secularism End of Religious Wars and the politiques
holding national unity of greater importance than the absolute predominance of a single sect and advocating religious toleration as the policy of the government
New Secular themes in culture
denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
"secular buildings"
Shakespeare and Cervantes
Opera
Dutch genre painting

5. Economic Issues Price Revolution
a period of inflation brought on by the influx of New World gold and Silver
Connecting the time period with the era of discovery
Devastation and population collapse in the Holy Roman Empire
Taxation

6. Science vs. Superstition
Encouraged by Protestantism
The nature of “proof” in trials changes
Cunning folk and superstition continues among the lower classes

7. Scientific Revolution
Not a unified event
“Natural Philosophy”
describe and explain phenomenon in nature
Copernicus-
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres; Contradicts the Ptolemaic (geocentric) view
Brahe and Kepler: While Brahe was wrong about geocentrism, his detailed observations helped Kepler prove heliocentric, elliptical orbits
The sun is at the center of the solar system, not Earth
Newton
Principia Mathematica (1687)
3 Laws of Motion
Gravity
Explain the motion of the planets

8. Galileo’s sketches of the moon

9. Baroque Art-Characteristics
The Art of the Counter-Reformation (Catholic)
Emphasis on emotion and personal experience (like Protestantism)
Dramatic lighting, usually not from the center
Distorted perspective—lines do not converge in the center
Move away from the restrained and formal classicism of the Renaissance

10. Baroque Art