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  1. The Scientific Revolution
    1. Sixteenth-century foundations
    2. Kepler and Galileo
    3. Religious opposition
    4. Scientific instruments and methods of experimentation and analysis
  2. The New Learning
    1. Bacon and inductive reasoning
    2. Descartes and deductive reasoning
    3. Challenge to traditional religion
    4. Locke and the empirical tradition
    5. 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. Dutch portraiture: Hals, Leyster and Rembrandt
    2. Baroque Instrumental Music
      1. improvements in instruments
      2. the rise of new instrumental forms
      3. concerto grosso: Vivaldi
      4. Fugue: J.S. Bach





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