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“Belle Epoque”: The Good Ol’ Days… Neiffer AP European History Capital High School Social Studies

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Page 1: Late 19th Century Advacements in Science

“Belle Epoque”:The Good Ol’ Days…

NeifferAP European History

Capital High School Social Studies

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Advances in science

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Louis Pasteur

• Germ theory of disease• Pasteurization: Reduces

food poisoning

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Joseph Lister

• “Antiseptic principle”

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Dmitri Mendeleev

• Periodic Table of the elements

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August Comte

• Father of “sociology”• Positivism: intellectual

activity goes through predictable stages

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Charles Darwin

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

• Theory of evolution• Criticism of the Book of

Genesis

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Herbert Spencer

• Social Darwinism• “Survival of the Fittest”

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Sigmund “Siggy” Freud

• Human as irrational creature

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

• Founder of psychoanalysis

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Albert Einstein

• German, then American• Theory of relativity• E=MC2

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And the not-so-goodol’ days

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Fredrich Nietzsche

• “God is dead”• Will to Power