late 19th century science [ compatibility mode]
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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