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“Belle Epoque”:The Good Ol’ Days…

Neiffer

AP European History

Capital High School Social Studies

Advances in science

Louis Pasteur

• Germ theory of disease

• Pasteurization: Reduces food poisoning

Joseph Lister

• “Antiseptic principle”

Dmitri Mendeleev

• Periodic Table of the elements

August Comte

• Father of “sociology”

• Positivism: intellectual activity goes through predictable stagespredictable stages

Charles Darwin

• On the Origin of Species by the Means of Natural Selection

• Theory of evolution• Theory of evolution

• Criticism of the Book of Genesis

Herbert Spencer

• Social Darwinism

• “Survival of the Fittest”

Sigmund “Siggy” FreudFreud

• Human as irrational creature

• Human subconscious (“the ID”) is not subject to reasonID ) is not subject to reason

• Founder of psychoanalysis

Albert Einstein

• German, then American

• Theory of relativity

• E=MC2

And the not-so-goodol’ days

Fredrich Nietzsche

• “God is dead”

• Will to Power

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