Baroque

Characterized by:

Opposing forces:

            Church vs state

            Aristocracy vs middle class

Grandiose Dimensions

Drama

Religious Intensity

Energy - Movement

Emotional

Discoveries:

Issac Newton - theory of gravity

Universal Principals

Locke - Natural law -- people had certain unalienable  rights life liberty and property.

Educational Law - we are blank at birth we are shaped by our experiences and schooling.

Hooke - Cellular structure of plants

Harry - circulation of blood

Leibniq and Newton - Calculus

Descarte - analytical geometry

Growth of a Merchant class

Absolutism - Absolute Monarchs

            Divine right

            Revolutions against the monarchs

Enlightenment - Age of Reason

            Result of 3 humiliations

            1.            Earth is not the center of the universe

            2.            People are creatures like all other living creatures

            3.            Reason is subject to emotion