Unit III: AP European

By tmgarrison
  • May 9, 1540

    Scientific Revolution begins

  • May 9, 1543

    Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies; Vesalius, On the Fabric of the Human Body

  • Galileo, The Starry Messenger

  • Bacon develops inductive reasoning

  • Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood

  • Descartes develops deductive reasoning

  • Newton, Principia

  • Enlightenment begins

  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws

  • Period: to

    Diderot and Encyclopedia

  • Voltaire’s Candide

  • Rousseau’s The Social Contract and Emile

  • Smith’s The Wealth of Nations