Monday, May 3, 2010

The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution

After a number of weeks of covering witchcraft trials, people being burned at stake for heresy, religious intolerance, unique forms of torture invented during the Thirty Years War--it is so nice to spend a week teaching the Scientific Revolution on the 17th and 18th centuries.  The only torture or unpleasant death is the threat implicit in Galileo's trial by the Inquisition.

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