How did the Scientific Revolution inspire the Enlightenment? Storyboard
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Enlightenment Scientific Revolution - How did the Scientific Revolution inspire the Age of Enlightenment?
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- Earth-Centered Universe
- Aristotle 350 BCE
- Old Thinking
- Earth is the center!
- Ptolemy 100 CE
- Earth is the center!
- Christian Church CE
- Earth is the center!
- Copernicus: Heliocentric Universe
- New Thinking
- I've been studying these planets for a quarter century. All of them revolve around the sun.
- The idea of an earth-centered universe started with Aristotle, was expanded on by Ptolemy, and was supported by the Christian Church.
- The Ancient Scholars are Right!
- Nicholaus Copernicus was a cleric from Poland and an amateur astronomer. His long study of planetary motion inspired the idea that the sun was at the center of the solar system.
- Francis Bacon: Understanding Through Experience
- Aristotle said that life can happen spontaneously like maggots on a dead animal!
- Well then! It must be true!
- These worms aren't spontaneous!
- Francesco Redi
- It's the flies! They lay eggs on dead animals!!
- Fire
- The conclusions of the ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as the Church, were accepted as truth.
- Aristotle: The Four Elements
- Water
- "Change is the result of the interaction of the four elements..."
- Earth
- Air
- Bacon urged scientists to adopt an empirical approach. He believed they must do the work themselves and stop depending on ancient texts for answers.
- Robert Boyle: Advances in Chemistry
- Change is the result of the movement of tiny particles...
- Aristotle believed that all terrestrial matter was composed of some combination of the four elements: water, fire , air, and earth.
- Divine Right Monarchy
- Logic can be used to solve scientific problems, so....
- Boyle made many contributions to modern science. One of his main arguments was that the material world was made up of tiny elements - what we call atoms today.
- Government by Popular Consent
- God has anointed my family to rule!
- ...it should be applied to society and government too.
- The people have spoken. we rule by their choice!
- Monarchs claimed that they received their right to rule from God.
- People began to challenge traditional forms of government. These challenges were based on logic and reason, the essential ingredients in the Scientific Revolution.
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