The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Compared

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The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment were similar in so many ways that it's easy to confound the two movements. In this lecture, I use a graphic organizer to go over the similarities and differences between the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, noting how the Scientific Revolution influenced the Enlightenment and how the Enlightenment expanded the scope by applying scientific principles to the organization of society.

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"The Enlightenment is basically the Scientific Revolution on Crack" ~ Tom Richey Probably one of the best examples I've seen

[@tomrichey]

Haha Glad my explanation made sense to you!

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[@tomrichey]

My pleasure! Best of luck on your exam! Keep me in mind for history exams in the future.

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I have a test on this in 15 minutes and honestly as a junior in high school I down played this 😪

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[@tomrichey]

Thanks! I appreciate you auditing my KZbin "classroom" even though you're not forced to for an exam!

[@TheManifoldCuriosity]

Awesome, a nicely chosen topic and well explained as usual. I was wondering this myself!

[@tomrichey]

Thanks, Hamish! I think you'll like the series on the Enlightenment Philosophes that I plan to record in the coming weeks.

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Although I don't recall where I read it (I think it was in a biography of Bacon), I do remember that his experiments with snow were allegedly early attempts to understand how cold temperatures help preserve meat.

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Apparently, Bacon was experimenting with refrigeration, which was why he did that experiment.

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"I need somebody to explain Newton to me." ~ love that!

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great! Could please do a video on knowledge revolution?

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You sir, using scientific principals have enlightened us to challenge authority and reform our society if we could just agree on what needs to be reformed. Perhaps Newton would be kind enough to give us an equation on reformation and then have Voltaire explain it to us in empirical terms. Seriously, a great learning video as usual. Thank you.

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Good one, straight forward and clear. Best

[@tomrichey]

Thanks! :D

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[@tomrichey]

In Amsterdam. I love easy questions!

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[@tomrichey]

+Brian Rodriguez Thanks!

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"The Peoples of Middle Earth" would be an interesting book, I'd imagine. I see it on the bookshelf behind you.

[@mariaexnox8393]

i dont really understand the difference between the renaissance and the enlightenment - was the renaissance focused more on art, and the enlightenment focused more on bringing education to the public? do both the renaissance and the enlightenment challenge the church's authority?

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Really they were challenging Catholic authorities.

[@anmoses21]

Watch a lot of your videos, very informative and concise. However, a seminar leader at my university told us about Francis Bacon and the chicken in snow, but far from having "no practical purpose" she said it lead to the discovery of refrigeration. The story goes that he was trying to prove that meat could be preserved if frozen, which we know now to be true.

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[@tomrichey]

+Sam Haha I get that now and then.

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[@riyajoshi3602]

was there growing secularism and rejection of the church because of the scientific revolution? did the scientific revolution enhance this secularization from the Reformation?

[@johnnydrydenjr]

Love your videos. One bit of constructive criticism: Bacon is very explicit the purpose of science is not to understand nature, but to control it.

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[@lm5848]

I've heard that the reason Bacon stuffed chickens with snow was to test some ideas about using refrigeration to preserve meat.

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The enlightenment as 'the scientific revolution on crack' - totally writing this down on my final exam.

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How were the enlightenment and the scientific revolution similar?

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we watched this exact video in world history class!

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[@TheManInRoomFive]

Is there a specific argument for leaving Locke out of the Enlightenment?

[@tomrichey]

+TheManInRoomFive Locke was a 17th century philosopher, so chronologically, he does not fit the bill. Like Newton, Locke was an influencer of the Enlightenment because his ideas were employed and expanded upon by many Enlightenment writers.

[@tomrichey]

+Tom Richey Looking through some stuff trying to figure out how I will explain his role. Many writers are referring to Locke as "early Enlightenment" or "Father of the Enlightenment." Basically, a guy who is writing a lot of the stuff we'll see in the next century a bit before his time. I'd say Locke and Newton were the most influential philosophers on those who came later.

[@TheManInRoomFive]

+Tom Richey Although Locke is mostly 17th century (died in the early 18th), I would argue that he mostly fits right into your 28 year gap. I get how you would argue that Locke laid the foundation for later liberal and democratic writers, but his major work (Two treatise of Government) from 1689 addresses the very core at which you touch: How social systems claim authority. His writings on how tradition, and claims of divine right are both wrong and illegitimate, which to me makes him a man of the enlightenment, by reforming society to adhere to reason.

[@tomrichey]

Thanks for offering your insights. I am preparing to record a series of lectures on the Enlightenment and this will help me in the first lecture, where I'm going to focus on Newton and Locke. It's always great when informed members of my audience chime in and offer good discussion that helps me improve my lectures!

[@tomrichey]

One last point I'd make is that Locke was not a critic of Christianity, but attempted to defend it. This does not disqualify him from being part of the Enlightenment but does place him in a camp alongside Descartes, Pascal, and Bacon more than Voltaire, Diderot, and Hume.

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Hadn't heard that quote from Francis.

[@tomrichey]

It's a good one!

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Sounds fun! What exactly do you mean?

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doesn't the Protestant movement tie into all this?

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2:53-3:14 thought I was having a stroke

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Well, un XVII century Locke and Spinoza were engaged in politics

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[@tomrichey]

Thanks on both counts!

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I want to play with chickens in the snow...

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And how does the Industrial Revolution match into this. Francis Bacon methodology was the important thing not the snow except as an experiment as part of that methodology. Reread your sources before you attempt to teach.

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Utter rubbish. Where dies he get his dates? Enlightenment eg was from 1625 - 1825

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