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Questions Nick Lapiana

What impact did European encounters with the rest of the world have on their thinking in the 1600s? - It encouraged questions in regards to the origins of man.

How did ideas about history and religion change? - Scholars wanted to calculate the exact dates of historical events and religion was looked on as fraudulent; challenged the bible's accuracy and validity.

How did the concept of natural law lead Hobbes and Locke to two very different conclusions? - Hobbes believed that man pursues his own interests at the expense of everyone else and that absolutism was the rightful form of government while Locke believed in the inherant decency of man and argued for a constitutional government.

Anastasia Clayton Online Resource [|Halley's Comet Info] [|more info]

Important People Danetta

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) a literary scholar, he realized many popular beliefs were without scientific foundation, the main spokes person for skepticism

Edmond Halley- the first man to predict the returning years of Halley's comet. he published a book which the whole topic was about what is often is called truth is just based on mere opinion, and that many things firmly believed in are really ridiculous, and that it is foolish to hold to strongly to ones own beliefs to tightly.

Jean Mabillion- a french monk, in 1681 established the science of paleography. the deciphering, reading, dating, and authentication of manuscripts

DuCange- in 1678 published a dictionary of medieval latin

Archbishop James Usher- after studying the bible he announced the date of 4004 B.C. to be the the beginning of the world

Richard Simons- 1678, published a work on biblical critisism. he stated that the books of the old testament were contaminated by the medieval monks that copy down the bible and therefore could not be viewed as as truthful.

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)- the founder of atheistic thought

Graphic Organizer Rachel Hollinger

Pierre Bayle, considered the spokesman for skepticism

Picture of Halley's Comet, named after Edmund Halley, the first man to predict the return of a comet Archbishop James Usher, whose controversal theory was that 4004 B.C. was the date of creation of the world

Graphic Organizer Tara Halley's Comet Pierre Bayle studied many popular beliefs that were without scientific foundation and Halley's Comet was one of these things. He used the concept of skepticism.

The Gregorian Calendar The Gregorain Calendar was the calendar that was followed by Catholic countries and was the calendar that was more widely accepted than the Julian calendar.

Vocab. Jake Seagriff

Travelers' books- widely used in the 17th century, these books helped people become familiar with the customs of countries and cultures

English law of evidence- the new idea of there needing to be more evidence to convict an individual of a heinous crime

skepticism- any questioning attitude towards knowledge, facts, or opinions/beliefs stated as facts

Michael Childs Questions:

1.) What is evidence? What and how did it rule out a certain belief? Evidence allows one to believe a thing to be true, or at least truer thansomething else for which the evidence is weaker. With enstallment of evidence, witchcraft was ruled out as people whom confessed would do anything to escape torture and those who claimed to have powers considered physcotic. 2.) Define skepticism and provide a skeptic theory. All beliefs are relative varying with time and place. A topic in which recieved great skepticism was Halleys comet, with the prediction the same comet would come about ever so often. 3.) Why was skepticism prominent in European society? What was it like for the people? Due to the success of European society at the time people started to question if it was too good to be true. Although that did not out weigh the many more whom stayed positive and intended to enjoy the prosperous 17th century.

Sam Petree vocab travelers books-helped peopl understand thctoms of countries and cultures

english law of evidence- idea that more evidence was needed to plead a case

Jacob McClarnon sec 29 people Pierre Bayle - self-pronounced Protestant, and as a fideist he advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason, on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man. Edmond Halley - English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist , and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. Jean Mabillion - French Benedictine monk and scholar, considered the founder of palaeography and diplomatics. DuCange - wrote dictionary of medieval latin Archbishop James Usher - Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. Richard Simons - French Oratorian, influential advanced biblical critic, orientalist, and controversialist. Baruch Spinoza - atheistic thought John Locke - English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.