NEW IDEAS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES, 15001789

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CHAPTER 19

• NEW IDEAS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES, 1500-1789
• SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

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Revolution in Science The Laws of Nature

• New Ways of Thinking
• The Newtonian Universe
• The Popularity of Science

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The Sciences of Society

• The Age of Reason
• English and Dutch Phases
• The French Philosophes and the Radical
  Enlightenment
• Enlightenment Thought and Women

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The Sciences of Society

• International Responses to the French
  Enlightenment
• Faith or Reason?
• The Economic Critique The Physiocrats and Adam
  Smith
• The Political Critique of the Old Regime

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The Enlightenment of the Heart

• Philosophical Movements
• Religious Movements
• Humanitarian Movements

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The Failure of Monarchical Reform

• The French Dilemma
• Enlightened Despotism Frederick of Prussia,
  Catherine of Prussia, and Joseph of Austria

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Changing Visions The Arts in Early Modern Europe

• The Sixteenth Century Mannerism Continued
• The Baroque
• The Dutch Exception
• Classicism
• Rococo and Neoclassism
• Classical Poetry and the Arrival of the Novel

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YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND

• The giant steps forward in science during the Age
  of Reason.
• How the scientific revolution affected philosophy
  and religion.
• Specific advances made in chemistry, medicine,
  and electricity.

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YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND

• The impact of reason upon political thought,
  especially its critique of absolutism.
• The reaction against scientific reasoning.