Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment

Scientific Revolution

Period marked by great scientific advancement

Also involved questioning of previously held religious beliefs

Major inventions and discoveries

Newton -- Three Laws of Motion

Vesalius -- Human Anatomy

Harvey -- Human heart

Boyle -- Boyle's Law; father of modern chemistry

Leeuwenhoek -- Observed cells

Galileo -- Telescope

Janssen -- Microscope

Sparked a belief in logic and science

This belief led to the Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

Humanism

The belief in the value of human potential and goodness

Major Thinkers

John Locke

Three Human Rights: Life, Liberty and Property

Separation of church and state

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women's rights, particularly to an education

René Descartes

Analytic geometry

Tried to break down all assumptions about the natural world to prove whether they were valid

Francis Bacon

Scientific Method

"I think, therefore I am"

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Key ideas of the U.S. Constitution

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