Lesson 2: The Scientific Revolution and the European Enlightenment

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• Lesson 2 The Scientific Revolution and the
  European Enlightenment
• Lesson Question What is the relationship between
  the Scientific Revolution and the European
  Enlightenment?
• Lesson Objective The students will understand
  the fundamental ideas of the Scientific
  Revolution and the European Enlightenment, as
  well as the specific achievements of a number of
  both movements most famous individuals.

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• Key Terms Epistemology, Empiricism, Ptolemaic
  Universe, Copernican Revolution, Inductive
  Reasoning, Divine Right of Kings, Social
  Contract, Philosophes

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• Epistemology the theory of knowledge, esp the
  critical study of its validity, methods, and
  scope

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Making the Universe VisibleDiscussion Questions

1. How was Aristotelian thought important to the
   Scientific Revolution?
2. What was the relationship between alchemy and
   experimental science?
3. Why did the Scientific Revolution not occur in
   the High Middle Ages (1000-1300)?
4. How was the attempt to make the universe
   visible a profound shift in the European
   worldview?

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Making the Universe MoveDiscussion Questions

1. Why did a small universe make sense to Europeans,
   and others, in the Middle Ages?
2. How did Ptolemy solve the problems of planetary
   motion?
3. How did Nicolaus Copernicus challenge Ptolemys
   ideas?
4. How did Arabic numerals make the Copernican
   revolution possible?

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The Ptolemaic Universe
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The Copernican Universe
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• How are these figures examples of making the
  universe visible or making the universe move?
• Tycho Brahe
• Johannes Kepler
• Galileo Galilei
• Francis Bacon
• Isaac Newton
• Carolus Linnaeus

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• Formative Assessment
• What was the Scientific Revolution and what were
  some of its achievement?

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• The Enlightenment
• Divine Right of Kings
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Philosophes

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• Lesson Question What is the relationship between
  the Scientific Revolution and the European
  Enlightenment?