INTELLECTUAL

REVOLUTION

STEPHANIE CONTRERAS
BSN-2A
Intellectual Revolution showed how
society was transformed by science
and technology
COPERNICAN
REVOLUTION
CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY
famous philosopher and astronomer

stated that the planets, sun and moon

moved in circular motion around the earth
-existence of days and night

He also beleived that the earth was at the

center, a concept known as geocentrism
GEOCENTRISM
A superseded description of
the universe with earth at the
center.

Under the geocentric model,

the sun, and planets all orbited
earth
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
A polish mathematician and astronomer

Introduce a new model known as

Heliocentrism, which suggested that the
center of the solar system was not the
earth but actually the sun
HELIOCENTRISM
The center of the solar system
is not the earth but actually
the sun

This era began what was

known as the scientific
revolution / transformation of
society’s thoughts and beleifs
Claudius Ptolemy Nicolaus Copernicus
DARWINIAN REVOLUTION
-one of the most controversial intellectual revolutions of its time
CHARLES DARWIN

A english naturalist, biologist and geologist

Publish his book, On the Origin of Species.

theory of evolution
Populations pass through a process of natural selection in
which only the fittest would survive.

He stated that organisms have the ablility to adapt to their

environment and would gradually change into something
that would be more competitive to survive, a process called
evolution.
 FREUDIAN
REVOLUTION
SIGMUND FREUD

Was the founding father of

psychoanalysis, a method for treating
mental illness and also theory which
explains human behavior.
Freud’s theory
emphasized the influence of
the unconcious mind on
behavior

Freud beleived that the mind

was composed of three
conflicting elements: the id,
the ego, and the superego.