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when did the scientific revolution take place?
1750's-1800's
what were "men of science" trying to do?
They were trying to understand science, and find a new way of understanding the world instead of going by the traditional christian teaching.
How did the scientists gain knowledge?
from experiments, observations, law, and math.
what was the significance of the scientific revolution?
it evolved the modern science
what did science challenge?
social order, and political systems, the church
what were the advancements of the Arabs?
math, astronomy, medicine, and optics
what country focused more on technology, rather than letting religion dominate? That also followed their own philosophers, that inspired enlightenment thinkers to hope for a stop to supernatural religion? That selected certain European science to bring into their country (math, and astronomy), didn't permit their scholars for higher learning, decided to stick to the government system, and their own philosophers?
China
What was the Legal revolution?
gave guaranteed independence for institutions.
what was a corporation? and give an example of one.
a unite that could regulate and control its members, without the church and state interference. Universities were now allowed to separate the theological, and philosophy teachings.
who inspired the European science?
Arabs and Greeks
what was being taught in the Islamic worlds?
only religious law. they didn't believe in natural science and philosophy.
What did Europe gain knowledge about?
the land, people, animals, societies and religions around them.
What was the Enlightenment?
the long-term outcome of the science development. It was where people could now govern themselves because human reason discovered the governed universe.
What is the difference between a Deist and a Pantheist?
Deist: God is not involved in the laws of the universe

Pantheist: God and nature are the same.
what caused the thought of the Enlightenment?
growing global awareness of major thinkers.
who claimed Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad as imposters?
Dutchmen
what was the purpose of the Enlightenment?
so human society could be changed and improved
Who/what did Charles Darwin do?
Created the theory of evolution from apes
Who/what did Karl Marx do?
created socialism (close to communism) to get rid of social classes and poverty.
What did Darwin and Marx have in common?
they believed in conflict and struggle were the cause of progress not reason, and education.
who/what was Freud?
He came up with the idea of natural drives, that everyone has, from studying about the human mind.
Jesuits?
were holding information about Capernacius' theory, because it was against the church
Why did Japan close their country off?
they closed it to avoid any corruption of their ways of thinking. However they did open it up to the Dutch, just to trade, and then they were allowed to get books, and a small group began to study medicine, math, atronomy, and geography, etc.
After trying hard to keep the European ways of knowledge away from what countries, did allow the European knowledge, but not until the 19th century?
Ottoman Empire, China, and Japan.
Who was Copernicus?
the center of the universe=sun
who was Kelper?
the planets moved in elliptical orbits.
Who was Newton?
brought gravity, and the laws of motion.
who was Descartes?
said math was important, created analytical geometry
Vesalius
"Father of anatomy"
brought the idea of the deists