Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution

• Church views (earth the center)
• Copernicus (Nope, sun the center, the earth/planets move)
• Kepler (Yup, Big C is right, with a caveat)
• scientific method

Galileo

• Father of Modern Science
• Mini Bio

Isaac Newton

• Principia Mathematica
• Explained law of universal gravitation-explains how movement on earth and in space works
• Mini Bio
• Beyond the Big Bang

John Locke

• Also a BIG ass deal
• Treatise of Government
• Mini Bio

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A Search for Order

• Wars of Religion
• Civil Wars
• Absolutism
• Constitutionalism

Extending Control

• But to what extent?
• How much freedom of expression?
• How do individual needs fit with state authority?

Western Civilization

• How have people in the "west" defined themselves in contrast to other civilizations?
• How/why have people considered themselves to be superior to other civilizations?
• Geographically?
• Religion?
• Authority, where?