Mister Richardson's
World History Class

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Chapter 14: Age of Reason

I. Scientific Discoveries

  1. The Scientific Method & Tools
  2. The Scientific Revolution
    1. Astronomy
      • Nicolaus Copernicus
      • Johannes Kepler
      • Galileo Galilei
      • Isaac Newton
    2. Medicine
      • Andreas Vesalius
      • Paracelsus
      • William Harvey
      • Edward Jenner
    3. Chemistry
      • Robert Boyle
      • Joseph Priestley
      • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
    4. Other Fields
      • Anton van Leeuwenhoek
      • Gerhardus Mercator

II. Intellectual Attitudes

  1. Forerunners of the Enlightenment
    1. Inductive Reasoning
    2. Francis Bacon
    3. Deductive Reasoning
    4. Rene Descartes
  2. Explanations of Reality
    1. Dualism, pantheism, empiricism
    2. Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke
  3. Spokesmen of the Enlightenment
    1. The Philosophes
    2. John Locke
    3. Baron de Montesquieu
    4. Voltaire
    5. Denis Diderot
    6. Jean Jacques Rousseau
  4. Deism

III. Spiritual Awakening

  1. The Pietists
    1. Philipp Spener
    2. August Francke
    3. Count von Zinzendorf
  2. The Methodists
    1. John Wesley
    2. George Whitefield
  3. The Great Awakening
    1. Jonathan Edwards

IV. Art, Music, Literature

  1. Art
    1. El Greco
    2. Giovanni Bernini
    3. Peter Paul Rubens
    4. Rembrandt van Rijn
    5. Antoine Watteau
    6. Mannerism, Rococo
  2. Music
    1. Baroque
      • Claudio Monteverdi
      • George Frederick Handel
      • Johann Sebastian Bach
    2. Classical
      • Franz Joseph Haydn
      • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  3. Literature
    1. Moliere
    2. Alexander Pope
    3. Jonathan Swift
    4. Daniel Dafoe
    5. Edward Gibbon
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