The Western Experience, 10th Edition (Chambers)

Chapter 16: Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution

SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE FROM COPERNICUS TO NEWTON

Origins of the Scientific Revolution
The Breakthroughs
Kepler and Galileo Address the Uncertainties
The Climax of the Scientific Revolution: Isaac Newton

THE EFFECTS OF THE DISCOVERIES

A New Epistemology
The Wider Influence of Scientific Thought
Bacon and Descartes
Pascal's Protest against the New Science
Science Institutionalized

THE ARTS AND LITERATURE

Unsettling Art
Unsettling Writers
The Return of Assurance in the Arts
Stability and Restraint in the Arts
Rembrandt
Classicism in Drama
Corneille

SOCIAL PATTERNS AND POPULAR CULTURE

Population Trends
Social Status
Mobility and Crime
Change in the Villages and Cities
Belief in Magic and Rituals
Forces of Restraint