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Welcome to the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment!

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Welcome to the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment!

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The Padlet I have created is split into two sections. The top features five of the great men who influenced the Scientific Revolution with their theories, creations, and contributions as well as a video, created by Al Grant, in the center of the section discussing the Scientific Revolution and its effects on the world we live in today.
The second half of the Padlet hosts five fantastic philosophes from the Enlightenment. It, too, features a video in the center created by Allhistories that discusses what the Enlightenment was as well as a selection of the people who contributed to this pivotal point in history.
All citations for pictures and videos are at the bottom of the Padlet
I hope you enjoy!

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AllHistories. "Turning Points in History - Scientific Revolution." YouTube. YouTube, 29 Sept. 2009. Web. 12 Jan. 2017.
Biography Staff. "Tycho Brahe." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 02 Apr. 2014. Web. 13 Jan. 2017.
Bloom, Harold. "The Heretic Jew." The New York Times. The New York Times, 17 June 2006. Web. 12 Jan. 2017. (Baruch Spinoza Picture)
Correspondent, A. "Special Feature: How Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized astronomy." Mid-day. Mid-day, 22 Feb. 2015. Web. 13 Jan. 2017.
"Galileo Galilei." Galileo Galilei. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2017.
Grant, Al. "What was the Enlightenment?" YouTube. YouTube, 20 Feb. 2015. Web. 12 Jan. 2017.
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Google Sites. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2017.
"Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws." Constitution Society Home Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2017.
Pomeau, Rene H. "Voltaire." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2017.
Rogers, Graham A.J. "John Locke." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 14 Dec. 2015. Web. 12 Jan. 2017.
"Sir Isaac Newton Biography for Kids – Founder of Calculus." MrNussbaumcom Sir Isaac Newton Biography for Kids Founder of Calculus Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2017.
Skirry, Justin. "René Descartes." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2017.

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This video connects the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment to the modern inventions of today while briefly discussing their contributors thus proving how pivotal the Scientific Revolution was.

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Turning Points in History - Scientific Revolution

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The following video briefly discusses what the Enlightenment was and some of the men who influenced.

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-A Swiss thinker who dominated the Paris salons with his outstanding intellect
-Like fellow Enlightenment thinkers, Rousseau supported individual freedoms, but he attacked rationalism and civilization as destroying, rather than liberating, for the individual
-He believed that people were innately good and needed to be protected from the corruption of society
-He wrote the Social Contract  which presented the ideas of "general will" and "popular sovereignty."

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-One of the most famous philosophes who was a favorite of Kings and Queens. His fame helped him amass great wealth past his middle class origins
-He wrote over 70 volumes of influential work in his lifetime
-He supported an absolute monarchy with a wise ruler who was surrounded by many advisers
-He challenged Christianity as a result of his distaste for religious intolerance with his idea of Deism which claims that a God created the world and backed away to let it unfold

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-As an advocate for governmental reform, Montesquieu wrote The Spirit of Laws which compared republics, monarchies, and despotism in disapproval of Louis XIV's growing power.
-He argued for separation of powers among different classes within government to avoid tyranny
-Rose to fame using his wit against issues plaguing European lifestyle at the time

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-Wrote the Essay Concerning Human Understanding  which is considered to be one of the first major works of the Enlightenment
-He claimed that people were not born evil or good but as blank slates, tabula rasa, that learn from experience
-An influential philosopher whose works guided the Declaration of Independence and helped create doubt of the monarchy for the French Revolution

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-A Jewish Philosopher known for his works on Skepticism, the idea that one should question everything
-He was excommunicated from his home and Jewish community of Amsterdam for his ideas that the mind and body were united into one substance and for believing that God and Nature were synonymous

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-A French mathematician, philosopher, and scientist who contributed to the improvement of the scientific method.
-He discovered the connection between algebra and geometry (called analytic geometry).
-Descartes’s Rationalism ultimately reduced all substances to “matter” and “mind”- to the physical and the spiritual.
-Famous quotations presented on Rationalism: "I think therefore I am."

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-An English scientific genius who provided an explanation for the Copernican theory through is Laws of Universal Gravitation unifying the universe into one coherent system
-He published his feats of genius in Principia Mathematica
-He founded Calculus to explain his laws as well as delving into light and the color spectrum
-He has been deemed to be one of the most important figures in science
-He was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705

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Galileo was a devout Catholic who revolutionized the scientific community with his contributions to astronomy, engineering, physics, and experimentation
-Inventor of the telescope and the experimental method, working with repetitive experiments instead of speculating
-He formulated the law of inertia which states that motion, not rest, is the natural state of an object, which an object continues in motion forever unless stopped by some external force.

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-A Danish Astronomer who differentiated himself from the others by having the most advanced observatory in his day
-He supported the Copernican theory melded with the Ptolemaic Theory
-He believed that all the planets except the earth revolved around the sun and that the entire group of sun and planets revolved in turn around the earth-moon system.

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-Revolutionized scientific theories of astronomical rotation stating that the earth  rotates around the sun
-He was one of the first theorists to start many other discussions of heliocentricism
-He presented his theory in On the Revolutions of the Heavenly  Spheres
-His theory was attacked aggressively by Protestants despite its scientific and religious implications