The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)Chapter 14:
A New World of Reason and ReformLearning Objectives
When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Understand the European impulse to question truth and authority during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Outline the modern scientific view of understanding of the world.
- Identify key contributions to modern science from the fields of medicine, anatomy, and chemistry.
- Outline the key provisions of the scientific method.
- Summarize the social developments during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that supported the development and dissemination of modern science.
- Identify the key ideas and events that led to the Enlightenment.
- Analyze the interaction between Enlightenment skepticism and contemporary European religion.
- Identify the philosophers and encyclopedists and summarize their main ideas.
- Outline the key contributions of the Enlightenment to the understanding of society.
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