Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution (graded)
Given the information from this week's reading on the Enlightenment, the New Rationalism, and the Scientific Revolution, how did advancements in science and reasoning change the lives of people at this time? In addition, what effects did the Industrial Revolution have on the world?
As usual we have a multi-pronged question to work with.
1) how did advancements in science and reasoning change the lives of people at this time [check chapter 11 for the time frame referred to in this topic]?
2) what effects did the Industrial Revolution have on the world at that time? [remember the time frame you are discussing]