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    The Enlightenment

    God  Reason
    Previously
    Enlightenment
    Catalysts for the
    enlightenment
    Science
    Astronomy
    Politics
    Philosophy
    Economics
    Social Factors
    Catalysts for the
    Enlightenment
    Science

     Newton showed that the motions of objects
    on Earth and of celestial bodies are
    governed by the same set of natural laws by
    demonstrating the consistency between
    Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his
    theory of gravitation, thus removing the last
    doubts about heliocentrism and advancing
    the scientific revolution.

    Heliocentrism
    Francis Bacon 1561-1626
    H is w o rks e sta b lish e d
    a n d p o p u la rize d a n
    in d u ctive m e th o d o lo g y
    fo r scie n tific in q u iry ,
    o fte n ca lle d th e Baconian
    method or simply, the
    scientific method. His
    demand for a planned
    procedure of
    investigating all things
    natural marked a new turn
    in the rhetorical and
    theoretical framework for
    science, much of which
    still surrounds
    conceptions of proper
    methodology today.
    John Locke
    John Locke
    widely known as the Father of Liberalism,
    was an English philosopher and physician
    regarded as one of the most influential of
    Enlightenment thinkers.
    Considered the first of the British
    empiricists, he is equally important to
    social contract theory.
    John Locke
     His work had a great impact upon the
    development of epistemology and political
    philosophy.
     His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau,
    many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well
    as the American revolutionaries.
     His contributions to classical republicanism and
    liberal theory are reflected in the American
    Declaration of Independence.
     Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the
    origin of modern conceptions of identity and
    the self, figuring prominently in the work of
    later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau
    and Kant.
    John Locke
    Locke was the first to define the self through
    a continuity of consciousness.
    He postulated that the mind was a blank
    slate or tabula rasa.
    Contrary to pre-existing Cartesian
    philosophy, he maintained that we are
    born without innate ideas, and that
    knowledge is instead determined only by
    experience derived from sense perception.
    Its all about the EVIDENCE
    18th Century becomes all about the
    evidence…
    At the centre is the SCIENTIST. Educated,
    largley male, wealthy, curious, white, with
    lots of leisure time.
    Instrumentation becomes key to revealing
    the world
    Knowledge can be expanded
    God wants us to explore
    Royal Society


    Impact on the study of history
    What impact would this have had on the
    way historians thought about or studied
    history? DISCUSS
    Gibbon’s work
    Royal Society
    http://royalsociety.org/Manuscript-Collection/

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