MEH/Biniukow
Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment Unit Syllabus
By the end of these 2 units, you will be able to answer the following questions:
Scientific Revolution
Sci Rev Time Period
What is a Revolution? How does the Scientific Revolution fit?
Origins/Causes of Sci Rev
Copernicus and his story
Heliocentric model vs Geocentric Model…who supports what and why?
Galileo Galilei and his books and decisions
Trial of 1633 for Galileo
Galileo and Copernicus’s impact
Sci Rev’s changes in scientific method
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Robert Boyle
Galen’s old beliefs
Andreas Vesalius
William Harvey
Paracelsus
Pascal
Sci Rev’s impact PERSIA
Enlightenment
Causes of Enlightenment
Origin and Time Period
How is the Enlightenment a Revolutionary Time Period?
Why is it called the Age of Reason
What is a philosophe
Thomas Hobbes, his book, and his beliefs and impact
Hobbe’s social contract and his book
John Locke and his beliefs (storyline) and impact
natural rights
Baron de Montesquieu
How to avoid tyranny (and details of how)
Jean Jacques Rousseau and his beliefs
General Will/Common good
Voltaire and his beliefs
Diderot and his beliefs
Encyclopedia
Women and Enlightenment
Mary Wollstonecraft and her beliefs
physiocrats (Capitalism) and their goals
laissez faire system
Mercantilism
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
free market
tariff
Each Philosophe’s impact today
How the Enlightenment spreads
printing press in 1700s
Old Order
Philosophes vs Old Order
Censorship tactics
Salons
Salonieres
who impacts Enlightenment and who benefits?
Enlightenment and serfdom/peasants
where it doesn’t spread
Baroque vs Rococo Art (don’t worry about this topic this year)
Enlightenment’s Impact on USA and Great Britain
Schedule for the Sci Rev and Enlightenment
Day 44: Introduction to Scientific Revolution
HW1: Study for Wars of Religion Test – 55pts (Due Day 45)
Day 45: Test on Wars of Religion and Copernicus to Galileo
HW1: Wars of Religion ID Questions – 35pts (Due Day 46)
Day 46: Other Scientists and Final Impact of the Scientific Revolution
HW1: Scientific Revolution CONNECT THE DOTS – 8pts (Due Day 48)
Day 47: Introduction to Enlightenment
HW1: none
Day 48: Thomas Hobbes
HW1: none
Day 49: HALF DAY – Thomas Hobbes Debate on the Nature of Humans
HW1: none
Day 50: Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau
HW1: 18-2 GUIDED NOTES Packet – 12pts (Due Day 51)
Day 51: Voltaire, Diderot, Wollstonecraft, Cartoon Analysis
HW1: none
Day 52: Adam Smith, Mercantilism vs Capitalism
HW1: Study for Philosophe Pair Quiz – 20pts (Due Day 53)
Day 53: Philosophe Pair Quiz, Overview of the Enlightenment
HW1: none
Day 54: Overview of the Enlightenment Conc
HW1: Study for Test – 70pts (Due Day 55)
Day 55: Test on Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
HW1: TBA