ENGLISH 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Novum Organum, Cruelty To Animals, Linnaean Taxonomy

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3EC3
• Professor: Prof.Mc Kendry

Document Summary

Keep an eye on things that interest you and what you want to write your paper on. Things that you can add to your exam (little nuggets of wisdom to make your paper juicier and make you sound smarter) Punctuation and spelling is not uniform-> does not mean it is important. Boyle, hooke, and hogarth: background on the new science and animality, boyle: the instrumentality of violence, hooke: the beauty of violence, hogarth: Protests against everything catholic-> is important in the development of knowledge. The english civil war and interregnum (between kings) (1642-1660)= just after this is where we are starting. Chartered in 1660 by the newly restored charles ii. A shift of knowledge and how they learn= new science. We observe, experimentation and research to find the truth-> because they no longer use deductive reasoning. Science is used to de-individualize and create uniformity. Committed to the (cid:498)scientific method(cid:499) (cid:523)in the face of classical authority and syllogistic method(cid:499)