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Scientific Revolution Discuss how in the 17th century scientific ideas reached the public. | ||
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( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-bacon.html ) | ||
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Descartes What did Descartes think about "reason"? How was he led to his "method"? What did he mean by, "I think, therefore I am"? Why was this insight important to his method? | ||
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( http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/descartes.html ) | ||
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Newton How did Isaac Newton argue in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy? What was the "foundation of all philosophy [science]"? | ||
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( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newton-princ.html ) | ||
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Science and religion or science versus religion? | ||
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( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1615bellarmine-letter.html ) | ||
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( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1630galileo.html ) | ||
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( http://www.leaderu.com/science/kobe.html ) | ||
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( http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-04r02.htm ) | ||
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( http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-04r03.htm ) | ||
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Culture wars Compare two sites on the problem of censorship of controversial ideas, and then explain the role of the Catholic church in assaulting and preserving culture. | ||
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( http://www.humanities-interactive.org/literature/bonfire/index.html?collectionVar=Literat... ) | ||
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( http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/a-vatican_lib/Vatican_lib.html ) | ||
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Toleration Compare John Locke and Voltaire on toleration. | ||
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( Link 1 http://www.constitution.org/jl/tolerati.htm ) | ||
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( http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-05r03.htm ) | ||
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The Bill of Rights address What problems did the English Bill of Rights address? What solution(s) to the clash between king and parliament did it present? What type of polity did it devise? | ||
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( http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/england.htm ) | ||
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