AP European History: Chapter 14 Reading Guide
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AP European History/Neiffer
Reading Guide:Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in
the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Scientific Revolutions
scientific revolutions
What is the origin of the sciences labeled as “new?”
scientist
Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) – Poland
◦ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)◦ The Ptolemaic System◦ Copernicus' Almagest◦ geocentric universe◦ Copernican universe◦ heliocentric universe
Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler Make New Scientific Observations• Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) – Netherlands• Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) – Germany
◦ The New Astronomy (1609)
Galileo Galilei Argues for a Universe of Mathematical Laws• Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) – Italy• Starry Messenger (1610)/Letters on Sunspots (1613)
Isaac Newton Discovers the Law of Gravitation• Isaac Newton (1642-1727)• Principia Mathematics or The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687)
Philosophy Responds to Changing Science
Nature as Mechanism
Francis Bacon: The Empirical Method• Francis Bacon (1561-1626) – England• empiricism• The Advancement of Learning (1605)• nature of human knowledge• Looking to the past vs. looking to the future
Rene Decartes: The Method of Rational Deduction• Rene Decartes (1596-1650)• Discourse on Method (1637)• scientific induction
Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolute Government• Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) – England
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Copernicus is smarter than you are...
• Leviathan (1651)• What is Hobbes' argument for absolutism?
John Locke: Defender of Moderate Liberty and Toleration• John Locke (1632-1704) – England• First Treatise of Government• Second Treatise of Government • Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)• Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
The New Institutions of Expanding Natural Knowledge
How did universities fit into the scientific revolution?
How did academies fit into the scientific revolution?
The Enlightenment
Women in the World of the Scientific Revolution
Queen Christina of Sweden
Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) – England• Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (1666)• Grounds of Natural Philosophy (1668)• Description of the New World, Called the Blazing World (1666)
Husband-wife teams
Francesco Alagarotti• Newtonianism for Ladies (1737)
The New Science and Religious Faith
The Case of Galileo• Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)• Galileo is placed on the Index of Prohibited Books• Pope Urban VIII• Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
Blaise Pascal: Reason and Faith• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) – France• Thoughts
The English Approach to Science and Religion• psysico-theology
Continuing Superstition
Witch-Hunts and Panic• maleficium
Village Origins
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Cavendish is also smarter than you...
Influence of the ClergyWho were the witches?
Review Questions
1. What did Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton each contribute to the scientific revolution? Which do you think make the most important contributions and why? What did Francis Bacon contribute to the foundation of scientific thought? 2. How would you define the term scientific revolution? In what ways was it truly revolutionary? Which is more enduring, a political revolution or an intellectual one? 3. What were the differences between the political philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke? How did each view human nature? Would you rather live under a government designed by Hobbes or Locke? Why? 4. Why were women unable to participate fully in the new science? How did family relationships help some women become involved in the advance of natural philosophy? 5. Why did the Catholic Church condemn Galileo? How did Pascal seek to reconcile faith and reason? How did English natural theology support economic expansion? 6. How do you explain the phenomena of witchcraft and witch-hunts in an age of scientific enlightenment? Why did the witch panics occur in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? How might the Reformation have contributed to them?
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