Primary Sources - Texts or artifacts created during the time period being investigated
Examples of primary sources: histories, letters, images, objects, speeches, charters, laws, diaries, buildings, newspapers, posters, photos
Secondary Sources - Texts focused on the time period being investigated but published after it
Examples of secondary sources: histories, documentaries, websites, journals, films, history magazines, textbooks
Image source: Isaac Newton . image. Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 6 Aug 2021. school.eb.com/levels/high/assembly/view/3008. Accessed 2 Sep. 2021.
How did the ideas of philosophers and scientists of the Age of Reason influence the world?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Zacharias Janssen
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Evangelista Torricelli
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Anders Celsius
Andreas Vesalius
Edward Jenner
Robert Boyle
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
François Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Cesare Bonesana Beccaria
Mary Wollstonecraft
World History Textbook
(you need to download the entire Zip file and use Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it- click on the “Start” file just like the American History text)
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