The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

I. Introduction: The Evolution of Humanism

II. The Scientific Revolution

A. General Laws, Mathematics, and Data

B. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

C. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

III. From Scientific Theory to Political Theory

A. Hobbes to John Locke (1632-1704)

B. England to France

IV. Social Criticism and the Philosophes

A. Montesquieu (1689-1755)

B. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

C. Voltaire (1694-1778)

V. Conclusion: The Encyclopedia and the Estates General

Key Terms

Galileo Galilei
Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World (1632)

Isaac Newton
Principia Mathematica (1687)

Francis Bacon
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

John Locke
Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690)

philosophes

salons

Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract (1762)

Voltaire

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