The year 1543 may be taken as the beginning of the scientific revolution, for it was then that Copernicus published The Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies and Andreas Vesalius, On the Structure of the Human Body. Within a century and a half, man's conception of himself and the universe he inhabited was altered, and the scholastic method of reasoning was replaced by new scientific methods. The triumphs achieved by the mathematical method redoubled efforts in the field of mathematics itself, and during the seventeenth century, analytic geometry and calculus were discovered, logarithms and the slide rule were invented, and arithmetical and algebraic symbols were improved and came into common use. The need for accurate measuring instruments led to the invention of the barometer, thermometer, pendulum clock, microscope, telescope, and air pump. These and other discoveries had a profound effect. They influenced philosophy, religion, art, and political thought.

Although the intellectual movement called "The Enlightenment" is usually associated with the 18th century, its roots in fact go back much further. Certain thinkers and writers, primarily in London and Paris, believed that they were more enlightened than their compatriots were and set out to enlighten them. They believed that human reason could be used to combat ignorance, superstition, and tyranny and to build a better world. Their principal targets were religion (embodied in France in the Catholic Church) and the domination of society by a hereditary aristocracy.

A literary and intellectual movement originating in the late 17^th century, the Enlightenment grew to dominate politics, culture and religion throughout the 1700’s. Every European country or colony was affected, although to varying extents, especially North America.

Assignment: Create a PowerPoint that contains the following information on your chosen topic.
        - Biography/Personality Profile/Dates
        - Major Accomplishments/Inventions
        - The impact each accomplishment and/or invention had on the time period.
        - The impact each accomplishment and/or invention has had on the future.
        - Resources used (Primary and secondary)
 

To be turned in to Ms. Weid on the due date:
       - Printout of your project
       - A one page "Personal Reaction" paper
       - Works Cited page (in proper format)  (Don't forget you can use Easybib)
       - The scoring guide for your project type.
 

CHOOSE A TOPIC:
 

SCIENTISTS	PHILOSOPHERS	ARTISTS, WRITERS and MUSICIANS	RELIGIOUS
Nicolaus Copernicus	Rene Descartes	Antonio Canova	John Wesly
Johannes Kepler	Thomas Hobbes	Jean-Antoine Houdon	Count von Zinzendorf
Galileo Galilei	John Locke	Jacques-Louis David	Deism
Francis Bacon	Hugo Grotis	Moliere	Hasidism
Isaac Newton	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Jean Racine	William Penn
Andreas Vesalius	Immanuel Kant	Pierre Corneille
William Harvey	Adam Smith	John Dryden
Robert Hooke	Baruch Spinoza	Alexander Pope
Robert Boyle	David Hume	John Milton
Joseph Priestley	Edward Gibbon	Baron de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat,)
Antoine Lavoisier	Cesare Beccaria	Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
Maria Lavoisier	Gotthold Lessing	Johann Sebastian Bach
Tycho Brahe	Thomas Pain	George Fredrich Handel
Carolus Linnaes	Thomas Jefferson	Joseph Haydn
Anton von Leeuwenhoek		Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
		Ludwig von Beethoven

 

Scoring guides online:

                     World History PowerPoint Scoring Guide
                     Honors World History PowerPoint Scoring Guide