Enlightenment and knowledge
3 Novembro 2021, 15:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
The relevance of knowledge in the Enlightenment.
The New Science: antecedents with Galileo's discoveries and methods. The contribution of Isaac Newton in the field of physics.
The importance of observation, experiment and mathematical calculus in the interpretation of Nature's phenomena.
Francis Bacon's contribution on the dissemination of the experimental method and the proposal of new university's curricula with a strong emphasis on the new sciences and their application.
Reference to his essay New Learning and his utopia, New Atlantis. His optimistic views on the relationship between political power and scientific institutions.