Western Civilization I / Unit 17 WC1 1630 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Deism, Cultural Authority, and Where the Revolution Led
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The idea
The mechanical universe suggested God as clockmaker, deism, which undermined no belief at the time. Science gained authority because its results were demonstrable, and the anchor traces later skepticism from it. Newton's Principia of sixteen eighty-seven lies beyond this course.
In practice
Galileo letting Romans view buildings through his telescope.
Where people slip
Newton, Spinoza and Pascal are after sixteen forty-eight, named as direction only.
Your place on the trail
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