1. Scientific Revolution Enlightenment The Big Picture

2. The Beginning Before revolution people relied on the works of Aristotle and The Bible for their beliefs in the natural world During the SR people re-examined those beliefs and began to rely on reason for their info

3. Heliocentric Theory Copernicus challenged the Geocentric theory of the solar system

6. Johannes Kepler Student of Copernicus proved mathematically that the sun is the center and planets have elliptical orbit

7. Galileo Discovered laws of motion (Think feather and hammer on the moon)

8. Bacon Was a proponent of experimental method (empiricism) believed scientist should experiment then draw conclusions

9. Descartes Father of analytical geometry relied on mathematics and reason to prove theories Descartes and Bacon ideas lead to modern scientific method

10. The Enlightenment The enlightenment is applying the ideas of the Scientific Method to society Must use reason to solve societies problems

11. Locke People are born with natural rights life, liberty, and property

12. Hobbes Absolute monarchy stops people from each others selfishness Social Contract people hand over certain liberties and gain law and order

13. Rousseau Believed in direct democracy only a democracy created by the general will of society was a good government

14. Montesquieu Separation of power only power can check power

15. Exit Quiz What is the theory that states the universe revolves around the earth? Who proved mathematically Copernicus’ theory? Which scientist discovered the Laws of Motion? What is Montesquieu’s theory on government power? Name Locke’s “Natural Rights”

16. The Enlightenment recap Ideas of the Scientific Revolution are applied to society New Ideas of equality and how society should be structure Anti religious because church was part of old class system

17. Voltaire Supported freedom of speech and expression Believed that a monarch that respected the people’s rights was the best form of government

18. Diderot’s Encyclopedia Large set of books with articles Helped spread enlightenment ideas and knowledge in general

19. Enlightened Monarchs Some enlightenment thinkers believed the best government was one in which monarchs respected people’s rights Some monarchs changed some parts of their government but didn’t give up power Fredrick the Great, Joseph II, Catherine the Great

20. World History Textbook Assignment Read pages 202-205 do the Section 3 Assessment #s3-8

21. Exit Quiz Name one enlightened Monarch What did Diderot write? What did Voltaire support?