Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, and industrial Revolution

By kendall.childers
  • Feb 6, 1537

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    -Published (A Paraphase of the Nineth Book of Rhazes)
    Used for medicine at the time
    -Aid for students Internet: http://clinicalanatomy.com/vesalius2.htm
  • Feb 6, 1543

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Nicholas Copernicus
    -Sun is center (helocentric)\
    Coperian Universe
    - Changed how we viewed the world. Book:(pg 513)
  • Feb 6, 1571

    Johannes Kelper

    Johannes Kelper
    -Thought that the orbits in the universe was elliptical and not round like a circle.
    Kelper's 1st Law
    - Helped sovle problemin the Coperian System.
    Notes: My Notes

  • Inventions

    Inventions
    • Telescope 1608 -Submarine 1620
    • Steam Turbine 1629
    Internet: http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Seventeenth.htm

  • Galieo

    Galieo
    -Made the telescope
    Invented telescope
    -The stars are not the heavens. Notes: My Notes

  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes
    -Published (Regulae or Rulers for the Direction of Mind)
    Showed interest shared with 16th and 17th scientists, philosphers, and etc.
    -Interests of acient mathematics Internet: http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/descartes.html

  • Newton

    Newton
    -Discoved Gravity
    Universal Law of Gravity
    -Help people know for the first time what gravity is. Notes: My Notes

  • John Locke

    John Locke
    -Published (Two Treatises of Civil Government)
    After the Glorious Revolution of the Americans
    -Plot against King Charles II Internet: http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/locke.

  • First Newspaper

    First Newspaper
    -Published (Boston News-Letter)
    First eeditor
    -Known as a half-sheet Internet: http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/newspaper/

  • Montesquieu

    Montesquieu
    -Published (Persian Letters and The Spirit of the Laws)
    shared certain themes
    -notably faascination with people who aren't Europeans. Internet: plato.stanford.edu/entries/montesquieu/

  • Voltaire

    Voltaire
    -Published (Éléments de la Philosophie de Newton)
    devoted Issac Newton's metaphysics.
    -Accurate account of philosophy of Newton Internet: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire/#PriLit

  • Diderot

    Diderot
    -Published ( Lette sur les aveugles)
    Support Lock's discovery of the theory of the knowledge
    - Attacked morality of the day Internet: http://www.iep.utm.edu/diderot/

  • Rousseau

    Rousseau
    -Published (The Social Contract)
    Major work of his
    - Caused controversy in France Internet: http://www.iep.utm.edu/rousseau/

  • Beccaria

    Beccaria
    -Focused on fixing the justice system.
    acquired France and British
    -Formed intellectural circle. Internet: http://www.iep.utm.edu/beccaria/

  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith
    -Published (The ealth of Nations)
    Became famous, because of his book
    - Influence on the economic freedom Internet: http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jun/smith.html

  • World Economy

    World Economy
    -Railroads trasport the goods.
    Faster Communication
    -Government was transformed. Internet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/workshop_of_the_world_01.shtml

  • Pertaining to Marx, communism

    Pertaining to Marx, communism
    • ("Communist Manifesto")was a book. Socialism was written and it had regular text -Sold thoughout the world.
    Internet:http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/manifesto.html

  • Federation of Trade and Labor Unions

    Federation of Trade and Labor Unions
    -Name changed to America Federation of Labor.
    First President was Samuel Gomppers.
    - Political views and thought trade unions should to do capital system.
    Internet: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAunion.htm