Impact of the Scientific Revolution Philosophy

THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

Period: Oct 10, 1543 to Oct 10, 1790

John Locke

Oct 10, 1690

John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience

Jean Baptist

Oct 10, 1809

French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck argues in Zoological Philosophy that creatures can inherit acquired characteristics

RALPH WALDO

Oct 10, 1836

In his essay, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets out the fundamentals of the philolosphy of Transcendentalism

1872

Oct 10, 1872

Pragmatism emerges as a philosophical approach in meetings of the Metaphysical Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts