HY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Crop Rotation, Scientific Revolution, Scientific Method
19 Jan 2016
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Two ways to establish and govern a state: absolutism (ultimately does not work) (france, constitutionalism (england) Growth of middling orders (middle class), wealth, and power: due to agricultural revolution (crop rotation especially) Less people on farm and more food. Take ideas from sci rev and apply them to society. Trickle down knowledge to everyone, not just those in academia. Writing in french and the vernacular instead of in latin. Start taking issue with the power of the church/religion. Especially read by broad audiences in france who, due to financial burdens, are angry at the current situation. Concerned with role and potential of human reason to solve world"s problems. Voltaire: during louis xiv era, 1726, travels to england and sees the intellectual and religious freedom (lack of censorship, 1733, writes letters on england, which begins the. Letters were about constitutional monarchy, religious freedom, newton, locke, condemning racism, slavery, and religious intolerance.
