HIS-3464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pineal Gland, Utopia, Scientific Revolution
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The ideals: order (everything in the world needed to be ordered, reform (change things, progress (come up with better ideas) Metaphysical to physical: like the greeks. Specialization: people are starting to focus on specific ideas or specific fields of science: fields of science start to develop. Measurements: people are using standard units. This goes back to order because they are giving order to the universe by units. Nature and reason: trees are good because they make paper and help build things. The enlightenment is challenging an organic view of the world: magic and the occult. You take the clock apart and you understand the maker. Impact on women: women are given less value in the scientific world. At the time, women were associated with magic and these things are not longer important. Time where women"s participation in science has decreased. Why its works: each part works to produce movement, it needs a clockmaker, mystery can be explained by mechanics.
