What catches your attention in Chapter 16? What interests you, or puzzles you, or surprises you? Here’s your chance to ask a question, to make an observation, to note an historical connection among these chapters.

 M9 Discussion – Ch 16 : The New Science of the Seventeenth Century A+

Chapter 16 of our textbook, Western Civilizations, brings us to a subject you may find more modern and relatable than anything we’ve studied previously: the Scientific Revolution. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a select group of European intellectuals invented new ways of thinking about the world around them which would forever alter Europeans’ attitudes toward the natural world. However it is important to learn just how grounded in their own time period these thinkers were: they were NOT “modern” scientists as we understand that field of knowledge today.

What catches your attention in Chapter 16? What interests you, or puzzles you, or surprises you? Here’s your chance to ask a question, to make an observation, to note an historical connection among these chapters. If you’re here first, please start the conversation!