Ap European History: Chapter 14 Reading Guide

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)

Copernicus is smarter than you are...

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 1/3

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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

Cavendish is also smarter than you...

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 2/3

Influence of the Clergy Who 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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