Age of Enlightenment vs. The Scientific

RevolutionBy: Irmarie Alvira & Aja Goode

AP World HistoryOctober 5, 2010

Age of Enlightenment1

Who: Philosophical rationalists René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, and skeptical thinkers in France such as Pierre Bayle

What: A period where traditional institutions, customs, and morals where critically questioned, and a strong belief in rationality and science occurred. Was the source of critical ideas, such as the centrality of freedom and democracy.

When: 17th & 18th Century

Where: Europe and the American colonies

Why: Citizens began to question the norms and ideas of their home.

Scientific Revolution2

Who: Began with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, it ended with Isaac Newton (1642-1727), who proposed universal laws and a Mechanical Universe.

What: A period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of doctrines that had prevailed.

When: 1550-1700

Where: Europe

Why: Changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization

Comparison3

Both:

Involved an application of the natural, humanistic attitudes.

Both:

The scientists and philosophers of these eras discovered and taught new ideas that often contradicted what the church and former thinkers had taught and believed before them.

Comparing cont.4

Both:

The two revolutions lead to a movement away from the church and faith, and towards a belief in more scientific and mathematical explanations for the way things worked.

Both:

The hearth of most of the intellectual, political, economic, and social characteristics associated with the modern world.

Contrasting5

Age of Enlightenment:

Spiritual, philosophical, and intellectual

Scientific Revolution:

Science and invention

Contrasting cont.6

Age of Enlightenment:

Philosophers challenged beliefs formerly held by the church and government by insisting that human reason would lead to the solution of all problems.

Scientific Revolution:

Scientists changed people's views of the world they lived in through discoveries such as the theory of the heliocentric universe.

Contrasting cont.7

Age of Enlightenment:

Based on the belief that everyone has natural rights and that one must control one's destiny in order to have a better life on earth.

Scientific Revolution:

Based on the popularization of the belief in a sun-centered universe.

Work Cited

1:http://history-world.org/age_of_enlightenment.htm

2:http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/SCIREV.HTM

3:http://campus.udayton.edu/~hst-102/WEBPAG~1.HTM

4:http://campus.udayton.edu/~hst-102/WEBPAG~1.HTM

5:http://campus.udayton.edu/~hst-102/WEBPAG~1.HTM

6:http://campus.udayton.edu/~hst-102/WEBPAG~1.HTM

7:http://campus.udayton.edu/~hst-102/WEBPAG~1.HTM

8:http://campus.udayton.edu/~hst-102/WEBPAG~1.HTM