Chapter 11    Enlightenment: Science and the New Learning


The Scientific Revolution

Nicholas Copernicus
On the Landmark Revolution of Spheres

geocentric

heliocentric

Johannes Kepler


Galileo

Francis Bacon
Idols 

Rene Descartes
Discourse

Rules for Reasoning
“Cogito, ergo sum”

Issac Newton

The Enlightenment

John Locke
social contract

tabula rasa

Thomas Hobbes 

social contract

Charles Montesquieu
separation of powers

Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence

The Philosophes

Diderot

Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Immanuel Kant
”categorical imperative”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract

Revolutions
American

French

Literature and the Enlightenment

Alexander Pope – Essay on Man

Journalistic essay

Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

Slave Narratives – Olaudah Equiano

Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels

Voltaire – Candide

The Visual Arts in the Enlightenment
William Hogarth – The Marriage Transaction

Rococo Style
Rocaille

Chinoiserie

Rococo Painting

Antoine Wateau – Departure from the Island of Cythera

fête galante – “elegant entertainment”

François Boucher – Venus Consoling Love

Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – Marie Antoinete

Rococo Sculpture

Clodion – Intoxication of Wine

Neoclassical Architecture

Church of Saint Mary Magdelene

Arch of Triumph

Music and the Enlightenment

Symphony Orchestra

Hayden

Mozart

BEYOND THE WEST: Japan

Ritual tea ceremony

Zen painting

Hakuin Edaku – Meditating Dharma

koan

haiku