ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos


Period 2: 1648-1815 Videos 9 videos

AP European History 2.3 Period 2: 1648-1815
45 Views

AP European History 2.3 Period 2: 1648-1815. Supporters of this image would argue that philosophers of the Enlightenment were mostly inspired by wh...

AP European History 1.2 Period 2: 1648-1815
35 Views

AP European History 1.2 Period 2: 1648-1815. Which best describes the state of nature as highlighted in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes?

AP European History 1.1 Period 2: 1648-1815
46 Views

AP European History 1.1 Period 2: 1648-1815. Thomas Hobbes, the political philosopher who wrote Leviathan, contributes which of the following ideas?

See All

AP European History 2.2 Period 2: 1648-1815 147 Views


Share It!


Description:

AP European History 2.2 Period 2: 1648-1815. Advances in the Scientific Revolution, like the one shown in the image, ultimately led English philosophers to doubt which of the following?

Language:
English Language

Transcript

00:04

And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the scientific

00:07

revolution it'll go down in history as the day the chemistry club demanded more [Students together in a chemistry club]

00:11

funding...All right take a look at this image....

00:16

Okay, here's the question..Advances in the Scientific Revolution like the one shown

00:21

in the image ultimately led English Philosopher's to doubt which of the

00:26

following and your potential answers.. [mumbling]

00:30

alright well don't get too excited the Scientific Revolution had nothing to do

00:34

with robots taken over the world not yet anyway well the Scientific Revolution [Girl in a bar and Arnold Schwarzenegger appears]

00:38

we're talking about here was really just a bunch of nerds sitting around in

00:42

Europe figuring out a bunch of mathematical and scientific stuff pretty [Historical scientific figures together in a room]

00:46

cool but not like a plot of dozens of movies kind of cool anyway some of the

00:50

advances made in the revolution led to many English Philosopher's beginning to [English philosopher's sat together]

00:54

doubt something but what was it well was it A; God well not quite from the

01:00

beginning of the movement philosophers and scientists never doubted that God [A person with a cat's head dressed in robes]

01:04

created the universe in fact much of the work was done under the church and

01:07

Copernicus even dedicated his book to the Pope though that didn't stop it from

01:12

igniting a fundamental debate within the church but well it was a nice try so that

01:16

eliminates A... What about C scientific thinking huh well it doesn't make much [The letter C with two question marks]

01:21

sense scientific thinking and mathematical inquiry for that matter

01:25

became a part of public and religious life. Science was discussed everywhere

01:31

and scientific books were published like never before basically science was the [A scientist wearing a white coat in a lab]

01:35

fad of the early modern period pretty cool but not as far out as disco and

01:40

bell bottoms, right? All right well that eliminates C and D... That means that the

01:44

Scientific Revolution led English Philosopher's to doubt B; absolutism

01:49

while the Scientific Revolution didn't make anyone question God they did [A priest and a baby and a crown appears on the baby's head]

01:53

start to wonder if religious leaders should really be the ones in absolute

01:56

power in other words philosophers started thinking that we should be ruled

02:00

by law as in laws we set forth not the divine law so B is the correct answer [A book of law and the letter B with a green tick]

02:06

but hey at least nobody has ever doubted how groovy lava lamps are.. Check those

02:11

out.. That is a scientific marvel stare at it for a while, see how it makes

02:14

you feel. [A laval lamp]

Related Videos

AP European History 2.1 Period 1: 1450-1648
286 Views

AP European History Period 1: 1450-1648 Drill 2, Problem 1. As a result of the meeting in the image, which of the following occurred?

AP European History 2.1 Period 3: 1815-1914
197 Views

AP European History Period 3: 1815-1914 Drill 2, Period 1, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon represented the beginning of which of the following art m...

AP European History 2.4 Period 3: 1815-1914
77 Views

AP European History Period 3: 1815-1914 Drill 2, Problem 4. Paintings like the one depicted above were a direct reflection of what?

AP European History 1.2 Period 4: 1914-Present
60 Views

AP European History 1.2 Period 4: 1914-Present Not long before this picture was taken, Hitler rose to power and ruled by decree alone due to which...

AP European History 1.4 Period 3: 1815-1914
32 Views

AP European History 1.4 Period 3: 1815-1914. As evidenced through the passage above, Karl Marx was a passionate leader and is considered the father...