 |  A History of the Modern World, 9/e R R Palmer,
Yale University
Joel Colton,
Duke University
Lloyd Kramer,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The Scientific View of the World
Learning ObjectivesChapter 7 teaches students about:
| The rise of modern science and a scientific view of the world and human affairs. |
| | | | The precedents for the scientific breakthroughs of the seventeenth century. |
| | | | Bacon and Descartes, and how they heralded both a scientific view of the world and a scientific method for establishing and testing knowledge. |
| | | | Advances made in the sciences in the seventeenth century. |
| | | | The tremendous gains in astronomy and physics, which reshaped conceptions of God and the world and promised concrete breakthroughs with economic benefits. |
| | | | How European expansion encouraged reciprocal influences and the questioning of previous thinking on religion, language, and human origins. |
| | | | The current of skepticism, and its impact on the historical sciences, law, and religious scholarship. |
| | | | The philosophy of natural law and natural right, which facilitated the promotion of ideas of universalism and progress. |
| | | | The ideas of Hobbes, the leading proponent of secular absolutism and one of the great theorists of state sovereignty. |
| | | | The ideas of Locke, whose justification of constitutionalism was especially influential in the British colonies. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education