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I'm doing paper for the History of Math class and I'm stuck on one section.
I can't figure how during the 18th century Mathematics played a role in society.
Here's what I have so far:
The critical factor of the scientists of the scientific revolution was their success. And the acceptance of their new science by the educated elite leading to the formation of a new society and culture. By the early 18th century monarchs, nobles and statesman were giving their money to scientific academies and projects .
The achievements of Kepler, Boyle, Harvey and Newton by the early 18th century were quickly institutionalized in all major academies and universities. Society was soaking up all the new science and mathematics like a sponge.
The scientific men and women became what we today would consider celebrities. They were fashionable icons. People started saving their scare and hard-earned money to by globes for their homes and microscopes- for the reason that owning these objects caused families statues to rise.
By the 18th century knowledge of what was now being called Newtonian science and the diffusion of learning had become the goal of the educated classes. Conversely censorship and the church hindered their goal. The leaders of the new science became the leaders of the Enlightenment and they sought to now not only spread the knowledge but to impose freedoms on the social and political institutions.
They attacked (in writing) on anything that stood in the way of tolerance, freedom and the new science. Because of this they earned the name Philosophes (meaning philosophers.) some famous philosophers of the time were Voltaire in France and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in the colonies and Immanuel Kant in Germany .
The heart and feelings of society was the insistence that each individual should think independently without the teachings of the authority of universities and the clergyman of the churches. The society was fed up with all the practices of medieval culture and the reprehensive politics of the time (more specifically the privileges of the aristocrats and the practices of the monarch.) The Philosophes and their support by the educated elite lead to the formation of a public and worldly culture.
In their cat and mouse game with censorship and harsh authority salons were established. They were a zone for social life outside the family and were not attached or associated the churches or the courts of the monarchs. They were gatherings conducted in private homes and the groups helped to create a new worldly and public culture. The salons were free mental spaces, and it helped learning to flourish. In the salons lectures were given with the scientific demonstrations and they learned all about Newton mechanics and mathematics.
This new society dared the think for themselves.
When looking it over my professor told me I didn't relate that paragraph enough to math. So my question is how ( using what I already have!) Can to relate all that to math?
Looking at it is making my head spin
I can't figure how during the 18th century Mathematics played a role in society.
Here's what I have so far:
The critical factor of the scientists of the scientific revolution was their success. And the acceptance of their new science by the educated elite leading to the formation of a new society and culture. By the early 18th century monarchs, nobles and statesman were giving their money to scientific academies and projects .
The achievements of Kepler, Boyle, Harvey and Newton by the early 18th century were quickly institutionalized in all major academies and universities. Society was soaking up all the new science and mathematics like a sponge.
The scientific men and women became what we today would consider celebrities. They were fashionable icons. People started saving their scare and hard-earned money to by globes for their homes and microscopes- for the reason that owning these objects caused families statues to rise.
By the 18th century knowledge of what was now being called Newtonian science and the diffusion of learning had become the goal of the educated classes. Conversely censorship and the church hindered their goal. The leaders of the new science became the leaders of the Enlightenment and they sought to now not only spread the knowledge but to impose freedoms on the social and political institutions.
They attacked (in writing) on anything that stood in the way of tolerance, freedom and the new science. Because of this they earned the name Philosophes (meaning philosophers.) some famous philosophers of the time were Voltaire in France and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in the colonies and Immanuel Kant in Germany .
The heart and feelings of society was the insistence that each individual should think independently without the teachings of the authority of universities and the clergyman of the churches. The society was fed up with all the practices of medieval culture and the reprehensive politics of the time (more specifically the privileges of the aristocrats and the practices of the monarch.) The Philosophes and their support by the educated elite lead to the formation of a public and worldly culture.
In their cat and mouse game with censorship and harsh authority salons were established. They were a zone for social life outside the family and were not attached or associated the churches or the courts of the monarchs. They were gatherings conducted in private homes and the groups helped to create a new worldly and public culture. The salons were free mental spaces, and it helped learning to flourish. In the salons lectures were given with the scientific demonstrations and they learned all about Newton mechanics and mathematics.
This new society dared the think for themselves.
When looking it over my professor told me I didn't relate that paragraph enough to math. So my question is how ( using what I already have!) Can to relate all that to math?
Looking at it is making my head spin