SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Robert Boyle, Black Death, Francis Bacon
14 Oct 2015
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Historical background around the time of hobbes: magnetic compass: greatly impelled intellectual innovation, gunpowder: contributed to the demise of the old feudal order, the mechanical clock: became the paradigm of modern machines (relationship we, the printing press: allowed the dissemination of new revolutionary ideas have with nature and times) throughout europe. Hans holbein: ambassadors: exchange of ideas and exploration inventions were powerfully modernizing and secularizing in their effects overthrow of medieval feudal structures silent reading helped free individual from collective control of thinking new era"s emerging science; shaping the modern view now individual ability and deliberate political action and thought carried the most weight (reading) individual man is becoming an adventurer genius and rebel. Not only do we come together due to force and fear but also because of the monarch leaders. This is a time period that is characterized by science. This became great when they started to apply mathematics and how it can be applied to philosophy.
