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The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution

Essay Quiz



1

The scientific revolution profoundly changed the ways in which people thought. It was difficult for many to accept this change. Today scientific ways of thinking are as accepted and taken for granted as traditional ways of thinking in the sixteenth century. What might a future change in the ways of thinking be like, and do you think such ways of thinking would be accepted without too much difficulty?

2

Imagine what a debate between Galileo and the head of the Inquisition would be like? Write a script for this exchange as if you were writing a play, including both their words and their expressions and gestures.

3

Are there any parallels between the great witch craze of the seventeenth century and more recent historical occurrences? Explain.









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