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The Impact of the New Science

Chapter 17 pp 484-487. The Impact of the New Science. Outcomes of Scientific Revolution. Scientific Networks New ideas of scientific revolution were not accepted immediately in the universities, so other groups formed to discuss and debate the new science

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The Impact of the New Science

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  1. Chapter 17 pp 484-487 The Impact of the New Science

  2. Outcomes of Scientific Revolution • Scientific Networks • New ideas of scientific revolution were not accepted immediately in the universities, so other groups formed to discuss and debate the new science • Eng. Royal Society: improve natural knowledge • French Royal Academy of Science • Each organization tried to expand knowledge

  3. Outcomes of Scientific Revolution • Science and Religion • Argument from design • Complex design of nature proved a divine designer • Atheism • Belief that there is no God • Deism • The clockmaker God • Blaise Pascal’s wager

  4. Outcomes of Scientific Revolution • Science and the State • Thomas Hobbes • Defended absolutism using science • People, left to themselves, will just attack one another – they need an absolute ruler • John Locke • Opponent of absolutism • Government rests on the voluntary contract between ruler and ruled

  5. Outcomes of Scientific Revolution • The Nature of History • views of human history • Pessimistic • The sad story of decline and decay from an original high point • Cyclical • Humanity passes through high and low stages • Moderns • Human history is the story of intellectual progress • Timeless universal laws do not admit of history being a time of decline and decay

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