HIST 015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Tropical Year, Age Of Enlightenment, Columbian Exchange
14 Mar 2018
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A european intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as descartes, locke, and newton, and its prominent exponents include kant, goethe, Islamic scienti c revolution (al-batt ni, calculates solar year 600 years before. Polycentrism: a world with different centers of power (europe, china, india, mezo-america) Humanism: humans are the focus of study and humans control what happens (god"s plan doesn"t decide your life, up to you and what you do that decides if you go to heaven) Buddhism: more than a religion, it is a science of the mind -dalai lama. Copernicus cites al-batt ni as source for solar year (al-batt ni gets left out of textbooks because of european dominance on scienti c thought) Gutenberg invented the printing press (common belief) Chinese started printing books much before europe did.
