The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment marked a major change in Western thought. Scientists, like Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, redefined our conceptions of the Universe and life on Earth while political philosophers, like John Locke and Karl Marx, changed the way society and government was viewed.

Explain how Newton’s Principia or Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species and Locke’s Second Treatise on Government or Marx’s Communist Manifesto challenged the conventional wisdom of their time and changed how people thought. Use Gombrich’s A Little History of the World to put the two works in their historical contexts.

You must choose scientific work (Darwin or Newton) and 1 political work (Locke or Marx).

Form & Format:
This is to be an essay of 3.5 double-spaced pages.
Use only Times New Roman size 12 font with 1-inch margins

This is an analysis paper and should not include your opinions or impressions (and as such should not include personal pronouns such as “I”). The purpose is to find the common themes and to make meaningful connections and distinctions between the works

NOTE: This is not a research paper. Do not use secondary sources; only refer to the works and class discussions. It is an explication de texte showing your understanding (in your own words) of what you have read and discussed in class.

i will send you the name of the book and class notes
please use only those not any other source

Source Information
1) • Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathermatica
2)• Locke, The Second Treatise on Government & A Letter Concerning Toleration [Hackett Publications]
3)• Darwin, The Origin of Species
4) • Marx, The Communist Manifesto [online link] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61