Par 2.4 Golden Age - Thriving art and science

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§2.4 The Golden Age

Thriving science

Program

• Trade and science in the 17th century
• Anatomical theatre
• How to: explain questions
• Homework

Please grab your textbook!

After today...

... You will be able to explain how trade contributed to the development of science in the Dutch Golden Age

... You will be able to answer explain questions by following a roadmap

Trade in the 17th century

• Overseas trade brings prosperity
• Maps and instruments needed to determine the positions at sea
• Use knowledge from mathematics and physics
• Because of the overseas trade, people gained knowledge about the people, plants and animals in distant countries

Science in the 17th century 

• In the past, people studied nature by studying ancient texts
• People now start investigate nature themselves
  
• Why? Curiosity (new animals, plants, cultures), practical use (for journeys)
• Lots of new inventions (clock, telescope, microscope etc.)
• Knowledge spreads fast (printing press)

= Scientific revolution

In the anatomical theatre in the University of Leiden, unfamiliar animals and plants were put on display and dissected (1610)

Explain how trade contributed to the development of science in the Golden Age

How to approach explain question ?

• Look at the question: what kind of explain question is it?

Explain how / why / your answer / X. Then look at what you need to explain.

• Start looking for information: 

First your own knowledge, then your notes, then the textbook/source

• Formulate your answer: repeat part of the question, add a signal word (because), then add the information that you found.

How to look up information: textbook

• Look at pictures/sources in the paragraph: what do they tell me about the subject?
• Look at the titles of subheads: what is this subhead about? -> Search for the topic that your question is about
•  Look at bold (key)words: what do they mean? What do they tell me about the subhead?
• Look at the first two sentences and the last sentence of a indention (= alinea) to find the core information of each one. 
• Start searching within the indentions for your answer by reading the whole indention

How to look up information: a source

• Look at the source: what kind of source is it? A picture/painting, a text, a table? A combination of text and a picture? 
• Read the caption of the source. This tells you a bit more about the source and may help you find the answer. 
• In case of a piece of text: start reading the source. After you read the source, take a look at the question again: what information do I need to find?
• Read the source again, but this time more careful to look at details. 

Homework for next Monday

• Make assignments  2, 4c and 7 abc from §2.3
• Make assignment 8a from §2.4
• While making these questions, use the road map for explain questions 
• Hand in the questions you made before next class (online method / email)

(I will email the road map to you)