HIS 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle, Johannes Hevelius, Bayeux Tapestry
14 Dec 2016
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The age of scientific revolution and enlightenment: global economy of new pleasurable products, roots of the new spirit of science, enlightenment: science of society, social contract and human rights. Global economy of new pleasurable products: sugar, chocolate, coffee, tobacco, coffee (kavah): origins in ethiopia, brought to europe through the ottoman. Meanwhile back in europe: bourgeois (middle class) nuclear family enjoys coffee: fran ois boucher, the breakfast, (1739) Libraries: greater literacy, england: men 60%, women 40% literate, france: men 50%, women 25% literate. New spirit of science, 17th and 18th centuries: inspiration for a change in seeing the world. New scientific method: observing the natural world, using reason and mathematical principles to analyze it, experimentation, first: astronomy, second: anatomy. Aristotle and ptolemy"s universe: crystal spheres, epicycles. Astronomy: ottoman astronomers, preserving and advancing scientific knowledge. Why was this new view so challenging: johannes kepler (1571-1630, used mathematical reasoning, elliptical orbits of planets. Galileo galilei: 1609 designed a telescope.
