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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero
The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning

Chapter Outline

  1. The Scientific Revolution
    1. sixteenth-century background
    2. Kepler and Galileo
    3. religious opposition
    4. scientific instruments and methods
  2. The New Learning
    1. Bacon and inductive reasoning
    2. Descartes and deductive reasoning
    3. the challenge to traditional religion
    4. Locke and the empirical tradition
    5. the Newtonian synthesis
  3. Impact of Science and the New Learning on the Arts
    1. Northern baroque painting
      1. still life
      2. genre painting
      3. Vermeer and Dutch art
      4. Rembrandt and Dutch portraiture
    2. Instrumental Music
      1. improvements in instruments
      2. the rise of new instrumental forms
      3. Vivaldi
      4. J.S. Bach








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