1. Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
Europe
“Age of REASON”

2. What is the Sci. Revolution?
New mindset; new view of nature
It validated:
Use of reason
Search for verifiable evidence
Development of ways to confirm or disprove hypotheses
Importance of math to study nature

3. Causes Religious authority questioned Renaissance humanism
Need for measurement and observation: Example: How much weight can a ship hold?
Printing press spreads ideas rapidly

4. How does this compare to Medieval cosmology?
Medieval understanding of natural world = non-mechanical, geocentric worldview
Belief that the earth was center of the universe
Religious doctrine blended with study of nature (Faith-based reasoning)

5. The Four Humors Blood Melancholy (Black bile) Choler (Yellow bile)
Phlegm
If any of the humors are out of balance, you get sick
Bleeding, Cupping: cut the veins and drain blood to restore proper balance between the four humors

6. Science can be systematic, verifiable, progressive, and useful
Overall Significance
Shapes modern mentality that all knowledge can be based on:
Observation
Experimentation
Rational deduction
Science can be systematic, verifiable, progressive, and useful