SSCI 1210U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: French Academy Of Sciences, Scientific Revolution, Mercantilism
8 Mar 2020
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History"s favourite past-time: debating dates and periodization! Roman period (decline of rome in 470- 440) . Early modern period (1350ish 1550) (why is it even early modern anyways?) Scientific revolution age of discovery (1600 and 1700s) pre-modern. Enlightenment and free enterprise (1700 to 1900s) pre-modern. Mercantilism merchant capitalism industrial capitalism pre-modern. Great war: modernity and the twentieth century. Industrial revolution and industrial capitalism 1760s to early 1900s pre-modern. Shift in the role of natural philosophy 17th c. upheaval. End of 17th c aspects of modern science established new method of science and experimentation. Application and utility of science to the state economy the world could be constructed according to human needs ideology of exploitation of nature emerges. New scientific organizations (ie royal society, london, 1660 and academie royale des. Sciences, paris, 1666): efforts to separate science and religion: legacies: science as a profession with moral behaviour and conduct,
