AP Euro: Scientific Revolution
Vocabulary
Cartesian dualism
cogito ergo sum
cunning folk
deductive reasoning
deism
empiricism
experimental method
geocentric
heliocentric
inductive reasoning
Inquisition
law of inertia
law of universal gravitation
natural philosophy
new science
physio-theology
Royal Society of London
sabbats
scientific method
Scientific Revolution
skepticism
witch-hunts
People:
Aristotle
Francis Bacon
Tycho Brahe
Margaret Cavendish
Nicholas Copernicus
Maria Cunitz
Rene Descartes
Galen
Galileo Galilei
Thomas Gresham
William Harvey
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Paracelsus
Blaise Pascal
Ptolemy
Pope Urban VIII
Andreas Vesalius
Mari Winkelmann
Literature:
Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
Discourse on Method
Discourse on Two New Sciences
New Atlantis
The New Astronomy
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Principia Mathematica
Past Free Response Questions:
(1978) “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night. God said, ‘Let Newton be,’ and all was light." The couplet above was Alexander Pope's way of expressing the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and Christianity, and how did each react to the other?
(1984) How did the developments in scientific thought from Copernicus to Newton create a new conception of the universe and of humanity's place within it?
(1991) Describe the new astronomy of the 16th and 17th centuries and analyze the ways in which it changed scientific thought and methods.
(2000) Explain the development of the scientific method in the seventeenth century and the impact of scientific thinking on traditional sources of authority.
(2004) Assess the impact of the Scientific Revolution on religion and philosophy in the period 1550 to 1750.
(2009) Analyze how Galileo, Descartes, and Newton altered traditional interpretations of nature and challenged traditional sources of knowledge.
(2010) Analyze the ways in which European monarchs used both the arts and the sciences to enhance state power in the period circa 1500-1800.