Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

What was life like before Scientific Revolution?

Religious education, geocentric from humanism, Church

What was the cause of the Science Revolution?

Printing press & exploration of continents

What was the cause of the Enlightenment?

Science revolution— challenged traditional beliefs with new ways of thinking and methods to gather knowledge

What was the after/effects of the Scientific Revolution?

New methods of reasoning, challenged church’s authority, facts/data supported by scientific conclusions

What was the after/effects of the Enlightenment?

Belief in progress, secularism, individualism, welfare, invisible hand

What were Nicolas Copernicus’s ideas?

Introduced the Heliocentric theory to Europe

What was Johannes Kepler’s ideas?

Provided mathematical evidence to support the heliocentric theory

What was Galileo Galilei’s ideas?

Used telescope and saw that the planets and the moon were bumpy: supported the heliocentric theory

What was Isaac Newton’s ideas?

Laws of motion

What is the Heliocentric theory?

The sun is the center of the universe

What is deductive reasoning?

Finding evidence and analyzing the data to come to a conclusion (supported by facts)

What are the Enlightenment values?

Nature, reason, happiness, progress, liberty

What is a social contract?

People hand over rights to a strong ruler in exchange for law and order

What are the natural rights?

Life, liberty, and property

What were Mary Wollstonecraft ideas?

Equal rights for women

What was Thomas Hobbes’ ideas?

All humans bad, selfish, and wicked. Social contact, absolute rule

What was John Locke’s ideas?

Humans reasonable, natural ability to govern, citizen/natural rights

What was Baron de Montesquieu’s ideas?

Political liberty, checks and balances

What was Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas?

Individual freedom, social contract for greater good, freely form government, direct democracy

What was Voltaire’s ideas?

Freedom of speech, defense of liberty, hates intolerance, religious tolerance

What was Cesare Beccaria’s ideas?

Human civil rights in judicial system, speedy trial, preserve natural order

What was Adam Smith’s ideas?

Importance of individual, self interest and individuals naturally create economic progress, invisible hand