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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